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Are parent’s makpid if their child’s teacher goes into class a few minutes after the bell rings and not right after? My wife told me her principal warned them that if they stay longer in the teacher’s room they are stealing from the parents who pay tuition. Is this true? or is the principal just trying to get them into class and there’s no halucha issue?
If the teacher teaches well and the kids behave and are enjoying school, do parent’s really care if their kids have few extra min. recess a day? my wifee says some teachers barely get into the teacher’s room and the bell is ringing. Doesn’t every person deserve just a few min. to sit and take a drink?
If the teachers don’t take the bell seriously neither will the students.
If the principal is makpid, it probably is geneivah – not from the parents, from the school.
Even a regular employee who does “mundane” work is mandated in mishna-halacha to shorten his/her davening and curtail his/her bentching to avoid “stealing” time from the employer, kal v’chomer when the employee is in kli kodesh – teaching Jewish or secular subjects (which is also a mitzvah) to multiple “employers”/students.
However, if the recess is so short that she is unable to get to the teacher’s room (which I am a bit skeptical about but accept at face value), then I assume the recess is way too short for the students too, and this ought to be raised with the school’s menahel/ess.
I’m not here to pasken, but I’d assume that if those teachers that barely get into the teachers’ room it’s because they used the beginning of recess to answer students’ questions or otherwise provide individual attention THEY ARE NOT SHORTING THE STUDENTS/PARENTS AT ALL.
Not allowing time to drink a cup of coffee would be counterproductive. If they’re simply overstaying the allotted time it’s a different story…
Also, I used to hate it when teachers allowed the lesson to continue into recess time. If that’s the reason they’re short on time my sympathies are with the students.
I thing that teachers should take thier time for a good coffe break. the kids hace a very long day in school they could use a few more minutes for a break. and the teachers in the yeshivishe school system are almost getting paid less than the imigrant cleaning ladys and they dont deserve to be overworked. and if you want to talk about gneiva I think its gneiva to slave our finest women for less than $15k a year.
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