Why are admin meetings taking over teacher prep periods?

What people tried

Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.

1. 1
   Reporting missed prep periods in a missed prep book
2. 2
   Filing grievances through the union
3. 3
   Asking disruptive clarifying questions during meetings to make them inefficient
4. 4
   Documenting everything and working strictly to the contract
5. 5
   Ask the coach to demonstrate techniques or model advice in class
6. 6
   Put an alarm on during meetings and get back to work
7. 7
   Set meetings right before a scheduled class so they have a hard stop
8. 8
   Control the calendar schedule, keep meetings short, and set an agenda

In their words

Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.