• CarmineCatboy2 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    And that’s not dealing with the elephant in the room: you have all the institutional conditions necessary to create a ‘standardized’ course so you can do less prepping for the next year. But the students’ needs are never standardized. It is indeed a myth that teachers have limited obligations during the off seasons - you have administrative duties, meetings, gradings and prep time to do. But teacher’s obligations are doubled from expected during on seasons simply because they are expected to implement a standardized course according to public (laws, curriculums and such) and private (whoever owns the school and textbook systems you’re meant to apply) requirements, while also personalizing stuff for classes and students that are all massively different from each other. If you teach 60 kids in two different schools, they won’t be the same and they won’t be the same as the next 60 kids the following year either.