Why do teachers have to do unpaid after school dismissal duty?
Schools often require teachers to stay past contract hours for carline and dismissal supervision without extra pay. This unpaid overtime forces educators to work extra hours beyond their contracted schedule with zero additional compensation.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
Found another way around this?
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- 1Leaving the school or switching to a public school where dismissal involves simply walking kids outside.Did this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“My (previous) school this year is forcing teachers to stay often an hour after school doing carline in the heat without any additional compensation.”source ↗
“I taught at a private school last year and we had to do that every day for no additional compensation.”source ↗
“this happened to me at my charter school. I was also forced to tutor and the same situation, couldn’t leave until all my kids were picked up.”source ↗
Where this came up
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