Reply #57: That sounds like me

[noamnety]

I start work at 7:20am, and I don't get a break at all - not even a chance to pee, and no lunch break - unless I leave my classroom unattended, until 2:30.

I'm in a classroom with 21 computers throwing off heat, a glass wall facing the sun (think greenhouse), and no air conditioning. There are days when the room is in the 90s. On days like that, access to a bottle of chilled water during the course of 7 hours shouldn't be considered a luxury. It's not like I'm asking for time off to eat a snack-bar or a sandwich. I just want some water so I don't dehydrate, and I'd prefer if the water wasn't the temperature of bath water when it's already so hot I have sweat pouring down my forehead.

I would think the school would prefer that a teacher uses two dollars a month in electricity, rather than leaving their students unsupervised to wander down to a fridge on the other side of the school during class time.