Nope - they are under no obligation to do any correcting at all. There is no compulsion to give students out of hours work.
All you need to do is not muck up horrendously to collect you €40k per annum by your early 30s or €60k by your 50s and then retire well before 60. All thanks to the farcical pay increments scale, which treats the best and the worst teachers the very same. No incentive to do well.
This is all before the excessive holidays and the nine "sick days", that this profession allows.
Difficult to see how these terms and conditions serve the interests of the student, the parents, or the hard pressed taxpayer
I've only recently started to notice your posts and I can honestly say, with respect, that I feel very sorry for you. You're full of anger towards the Public Service and especially teachers.
Did you have a bad experience in school? Were you treated badly by a teacher? If so, was it a teacher who mucked up horrendously? Did it happen while the teacher was in his/her early thirties or before the teacher retired prematurely?
A friend of mine had a lot of pent up anger and felt much better after counselling.
You seem to be blinded by anger. Only a few days ago, you went on a rant about public servants and ended up looking extremely foolish when it was pointed out to you by myself and another poster that you simply didn't know what you were talking about. And here you are making sweeping statements and tarring almost all teachers with the same brush.
It's the simplest thing in the world to come on to askaboutmoney.com and rant and rave and give out but, at the end of it all, to use your own words, those teachers will still be working short hours, drawing huge salaries, not correcting pupils' work or giving them out of hours work. And you'll still be angry!
A straight question to you. Why didn't you become a Public Servant? More to the point, why didn't you become a teacher? Please let me know.
If you had, you'd probably be much happier at this stage in your life and people like myself wouldn't be feeling sorry for you now.
I wish you well and I hope you find peace.