Originally Posted by momofboys:
What schools around you have school for over 7 1/2 hours a day? Every school in my area is 6 - 6 .5 hrs! Unless you are talking about a center or after-school care.
schools here typically start at 8am and let out at 3pm so that's 7 hours - but teachers have to be there before the kids arrive obviously which was 7:30 when i worked so if a teacher had to be at school by 7:30 they would obviously have to drop their own child(ren) at daycare by 7 or 7:15 at the latest.
then school dismisses at 3, but the kids have to wait for the carpool line and/or the bus - so teachers rarely leave before 3:30 at the earliest and stay later than that typically, especially when there are meetings.
so even if a teacher had to work from 7:30 - 3:30, their own children would still be in care for 9 hours counting commute time.