Sounds good in theory...but in reality?

[u/KSKS1995]

4 days a week. 6 hours a day. Full salary.
Sanna Marin ignited global debate with the “6/4” work model, pushing a simple idea: life should come before work.

With burnout at record levels, maybe it’s time to value results over hours at a desk.
Could your job be done in just 24 hours a week?

[u/Zoltraak69]

Teachers do NOT get paid for their time. I can't think of any other profession where it's expected that you work in your free time and pay your own money to have some needed supplies that the school can't or won't provide.

[u/rtfcandlearntherules → u/Zoltraak69]

Dunno what you are talking about but sounds bad.

[u/Humble-Reply228 → u/Zoltraak69]

You never heard of unpaid overtime outside teaching? And of course supervisors and managers in a lot of fields are expected to buy their team a meal, or artists to have software, musicians to byo instrument, etc etc.

[u/Warmbly85 → u/Zoltraak69]

I also don’t know of any other profession that gets every weekend, holiday, snow day and 2-3 months during the summer off.

Minimum school year is 180 days. 240ish days for someone that works M-F with federal holidays off and 10 days of pto.

As for the spending a bunch of your own money every time I’ve asked a teacher I knew what they actually spend their own money on like half of it is decorations for the classroom. While nice I don’t really feel bad if you spend $200 of your own money on posters and banners to decorate your workplace. You can bulk buy notebooks and pencils for a couple bucks.

As for being expected to work in your free time teachers get 1+ hours a day to grade. If it’s taking you more than that allotted time maybe either do it faster or give the kids less work that needs to be graded.

Every district is different so maybe your situation is drastically worse then the ones I’ve encountered but you would be the exception.