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<p>You’re not a teacher, and yet you’ve read teacher contracts? Interesting.</p>
<p>As a professional, I go above and beyond whatever my “strict” job description says. </p>
<p>CTScoutmom - no one has said, at all, that 24/7 is expected of teachers here. And I totally agree that the student should have ensured the letter went out well before the deadline (which is why I’d always counsel my kids to set an arbitrary deadline a week before, because you just can’t count on people, computer systems crash, and so forth). But it would be hard for me to understand the mentality of having email access and not wanting to check it for 5 minutes over the weekend, so that you can better be prepared to plan out the things you have to do on Monday. And I have to tell you, it bugs the heck out of me when my junior employees who don’t have this mentality show up on Monday morning and spend the first hour sorting through things that have gone on over the weekend, whereas if they’d checked their emails once or twice they would know where they needed to be pointed or point themselves. I find it unimpressive and I do note it in performance reviews. It’s just part of the core competency of doing-what-needs-to-be-done and showing initiative that I rate employees on. `</p>