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Shazz: 29 Apr 2010 12:59:45pm, Reader's Comment: The Drum Unleashed: A day in the life of a teacher, Winston Smith, ABC, 29 April 2010: http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2884844.htm Historical link preserved from the original page.

My wife is a senior English teacher and has always worked extremely hard - there till well after 4 most days, weeknights for about 2+ hours at least, weekends for about a day all up, and through the last christmas holidays she worked basically everyday to get together and across new courses and texts.

And we have 2 little kids (5 & 4).

It's not sustainable and she'll have to cut back her load but the thing with being a teacher is that going "part-time" doesn't mean you get a day off, it means you have a few more gaps in your day - gaps which are quickly filled by filling in for absent teachers, or marking, or consulting with students/parents/colleagues.

So, in a way, she may as well stay fulltime as there's no diminution in the amount of time she spends there.

She doesn't complain - although she looks like death some days.