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No it’s not and someone’s cooking your time clock. I’d keep a personal log of your time and lunches. They’re trying to look good on paper while making your life hell.
I would document everything and file a complaint with the EEOC
Last I knew it was illegal to treat salaried staff as hourly.
Just pointing out that both exempt and non-exempt employees can be "salaried". The difference is due to the salary threshold which is reached to be considered exempt.
That being said, your ISD sounds pretty draconian, and I have to assume that this comes from the top down, so the superintendent and their deputies or assistant superintendents (especially of HR) are expecting teachers to take on all kinds of things but with no grave or leeway, even for five minutes.
To me, this approach is self-defeating because good teachers will continue to leave, and ISD quality will degrade, leading parents who can afford it to use their vouchers to pull kids out and put them into private schools, leading to less students at the ISD, more challenging cases, more teacher time needed to bring up students' test scores in order to try to maintain the ISD's standing. ISD funding would be impacted. So if the ISD's administration had some foresight, they would be smart about being supportive with their teachers rather than disgusting them and driving them away.
If you're not in a rural area with your ISD being the only option without you having to move or have a very long commute, maybe you can work for another ISD that is smarter about working with its teachers to ensure the good ones stay and help maintain conditions in a system that is increasingly in peril due to funding and the whole voucher thing.
Yeah. I feel for teachers today. My sister in law was a bilingual 1st grade teacher in Houston ISD, and I heard stories. She left almost 8 years ago when she was pregnant with the first of my two nieces. They are both now very well socialized and educated with her teaching them at home, reading and doing math at or above their level, and exploring nature, science, etc.
I can't complain about the education I received in Texas public school in the 80s and early 90s. It really was great, though I tested into a G&T program early on. But there has been an effort to dismantle education and also to standardize the hell out of it, and squeeze blood from a stone with ever more students coming in to each ISD as population has grown naturally and through demographic movements into Texas from other places. It's all culminated in a system that is utterly broken, with yesterday's children being today's adults who are not able to think critically despite clamoring for everyone to do their own research and are prime targets for all kinds of propaganda. Which I guess is what is needed to keep people toiling away, at multiple jobs sometimes, beholden to awful jobs to maintain health insurance, while not earning a living wage in some instances.
If your pay is good, well, I guess you're doing better than many, but still that environment is not a good one in which you can do your best pedagogical work. Whether you have a case for a complaint or not remains to be seen since if you're below a certain pay level, you are non-exempt, which means you're on the clock technically. Now, do they have to enforce that strictly? No (at my law firm, the non-exempt legal assistants do have leeway, and 5 minutes here or there is not a big deal, especially when they have to pull a lot of extra hours for a big case coming up). Just be aware that these ISDs work with outside law firms specialized in school law (like a former law firm I worked at), so they are lawyered up and give a hell of a fight to grievances and complaints filed by teachers, so it can be exhausting to go down that path.