Meetings!

There are many perks to being a teacher. They have been well documented in this space before. All weekends and holidays off. Summers off. Decent pay. Good benefits etc...

There are also a few drawbacks to being a teacher. Those have been chronicled in this space as well. One of the most annoying things about my job is meetings. Lots of meetings. Meetings for this. Meetings for that. Meetings to discuss what happened at the last meeting. Meetings to plan for the next meeting. I must say things have gotten better the last few years. Many meetings are now replaced by staff e-mails. I think as technology increases, the amount of meetings we have will decrease. Meetings are tremendous eaters of time. Time reserved for working in the classroom is often taken up by a meeting. It can be quite maddening sometimes.

I found the following photo amusing---