At Last...

...someone tells the truth:

The Real Number Of Hours Teachers Work In One Eye-Opening Graphic

"The real teaching day is around 12-16 hours a day."

• standard teaching day - 8 hours (includes supervision of students on the playground, in the lunch room, during, before and after school)
• 1 hour - come before school or come after school to offer extra help to those who need it
•  3 to 5 hours - day by day planning, grading answering emails, making home phone calls, making home visits, attending meetings required by school district, holding teacher parent conferences, etc.
• in the summer months, spring and Christmas break teachers spend:
• continuing education to keep up with the latest research in their field (two to four weeks)
• three weeks planning for upcoming term
• four weeks getting ready for work: most teachers need to show up one month before school starts to participate in meetings, training, etc. (That might be a bit of an exaggeration. My experience has been one week in advance of the return of the students, and frequently during the Christmas and spring breaks.  But, still, you have to be ready for when the students show up, and by ready, I mean not just lessons and units prepared but have the classroom all spiffed up to go along with the lessons and units and this has to be done several times a year. Nobody else does that for you.)