Why Your Sunday Nights Disappeared

Remember when Sunday meant rest?

Now it means unit plans. Assessment prep. Copying between tabs.

The dread starts around 4pm. By 8pm, you're deep in lesson planning.

By 10pm, you're wondering if this is sustainable.

It shouldn't be this way.

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"Good teachers just need to plan ahead."

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The truth: You do plan ahead. The system keeps moving the finish line.

1. Curriculum changes. Assessment expectations shift.
2. Student needs evolve. What worked last year doesn't fit this class.
3. You're not behind. You're adapting in real-time to impossible demands.

Planning ahead only works when the ground stops shifting.

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"There's no shortcut to quality teaching."

The truth: Efficiency isn't a shortcut. It's a prerequisite.

1. Surgeons don't make their own scalpels. They focus on surgery.
2. Lawyers don't type their own briefs. They focus on cases.
3. Teachers shouldn't rebuild curriculum from scratch every week.

Quality teaching requires energy. Endless admin work steals it.

Your students deserve a teacher who isn't running on empty by Wednesday.

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"Everyone works weekends sometimes."

The truth: Sometimes isn't the same as always.

1. 1Occasional crunch is part of any profession.
2. Structural expectation of unpaid weekend labor is exploitation.
3. Teaching has normalized what other professions would reject.

The bar shouldn't be "everyone does it."

The bar should be "does this make sense?"

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What Getting Your Sundays Back Actually Looks Like

1. AI that drafts unit plans aligned to BC curriculum—so you refine, not create from scratch.
2. Assessment builders that generate rubrics in your school's language.
3. Learning targets created in seconds, not hours.
4. One integrated system instead of twelve disconnected tabs.

That's Lamppost.

Built by teachers who were tired of losing their weekends too.

Your Sunday nights should be yours.

Onward and upward,

—JBJL

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