When you are part-time, you a a maximum number of hours you are allowed to work without getting permission to work more. At the end of a semester, students that have done nothing for months start turning in everything at once and it is almost impossible to complete the daily phone calls, grade work of students that have been working, and grade work of all the students that have suddenly decided to do months worth of work in the hours allowed. It gets very stressful and frustrating that this is allowed to happen, and it throws off the system you have in place to get everything done. As a part-time teacher, you get the last of the students, so at one point, I went from working my normal 25 hours a week to having 1 student in over 3 months because they were overloading all of the full-time salary teachers with students to save money, I presume. It was a good job for 2 years until this happened. I counted on this income and they kept telling me to be patient. I had to resign and go back to teaching in the regular classroom because I couldn't be without an income any longer. If you are full-tine, you are guaranteed work, but be prepared to work upwards of 60 hours a week (as told to me by my team members) and have over the capacity of students. I know this to be true because I subbed for many all-time teachers and I was astonished by how many students they were made to keep up with.
