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[Omkara]

Did you find that you had more freedom of movement at home? Or did you find yourself hour after hour, day after day, month after month, sitting at your desk?

All the sitting I do here probably takes as much a toll on my body as would being a boxer, though I don't gain the benefits of cardio-vascular exercise.

The body is not evolved to sit so damn much.

[yingwenlaoshi]

Who's

[Young FRANKenstein]

[Omkara]

By that you mean that in a school back home, when your duties were complete, you could go?

Sounds right; just making sure. I'm contemplating getting a credential when I go home. But I refuse to take on work that will force me to sit so damn much.

[Young FRANKenstein]

[Omkara]

Sounds. . .rational.

Though I have not a duty, but to change desks, this week, here I sit.

Only one more month of this . . . sit!

[lohengrin]

back home I had more teaching hours, but could leave when not teaching. Also, we had lovely long holidays, no camps and no sitting around at school during vacations.




The negative side to teaching back home: lousy pay, dangerous working conditions, very unpleasant students to work with.

[OiGirl]

I was with students, teaching, consulting, whatever, rarely sitting down at a desk, from 8:00-2:30. Had to be at school from 7:30-3:00, like every teacher.

[Omkara]

[Ya-ta Boy]

I taught high school at home. We had to be at school at least 15 minutes early and couldn't leave until 30 minutes after the students left...so 7:45am to 4pm. We all taught 5 classes + one study hall and rotating lunch duty plus one prep period or 6 classes and no lunch duty. If we wanted to leave during the day--for example to run uptown to the bank, we had to ask permission. For longer time out of school we had to use a personal day.