I agree with Campbell, Teachers get all that time off, plus snow days and other special days, and they still complain about being underpaid. Figure it out on an hourly basis and they are doing quite well.
As a teacher, I would have to agree with Bob Ress. You truly do not have a clue!
Good teachers spend an equal amount of time working at home as they do in the classroom with students. As for all that “time off”… we are required to acquire 60 hours of professional training each year to retain our license. Some of that training occurs during the summer.
I’ve done the math and calculated my hourly pay according to my salary and the number of hours spent just working on school related work (not including sending e-mails or phone calls to parents from home concerning their child who could care less about an education). I’ve concluded that I work for about half the minimum hourly wage some kid is earning flipping burgers.
Although you probably will not ever see this post since you have stated your uneducated observation and have moved on without a care, I just felt the need to clear the air about what true educators endure for the meager pay they receive. Anyone who thinks teachers work from 8 to 3:30 and have weekends and summers off needs to walk in the shoes of a teacher for one day!
You have to love your work to truly become a teacher!
It’s always the folks who haven’t been in a classroom who complain about how overpaid teachers are.
That’s because they have no idea what it is teachers DO and assume we punch a clock at 0800 and start talking, and take two 15 minute breaks at 1000 and 2 and a 30 minute lunch at 1200 and at 1700 we stop talking and punch out.
cdward over 13 years ago
So this *is* Jeri in five years!
Dkram over 13 years ago
If you could walk ear to ear though her head, you would hear the echo of your foot falls.
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WORDMAN33 over 13 years ago
I agree with Campbell, Teachers get all that time off, plus snow days and other special days, and they still complain about being underpaid. Figure it out on an hourly basis and they are doing quite well.
MrRess over 13 years ago
@Wordman, you don’t have a clue.
Fogger_man over 13 years ago
@ Wordman33
As a teacher, I would have to agree with Bob Ress. You truly do not have a clue! Good teachers spend an equal amount of time working at home as they do in the classroom with students. As for all that “time off”… we are required to acquire 60 hours of professional training each year to retain our license. Some of that training occurs during the summer. I’ve done the math and calculated my hourly pay according to my salary and the number of hours spent just working on school related work (not including sending e-mails or phone calls to parents from home concerning their child who could care less about an education). I’ve concluded that I work for about half the minimum hourly wage some kid is earning flipping burgers. Although you probably will not ever see this post since you have stated your uneducated observation and have moved on without a care, I just felt the need to clear the air about what true educators endure for the meager pay they receive. Anyone who thinks teachers work from 8 to 3:30 and have weekends and summers off needs to walk in the shoes of a teacher for one day! You have to love your work to truly become a teacher!
Orion-13 over 13 years ago
It’s always the folks who haven’t been in a classroom who complain about how overpaid teachers are.
That’s because they have no idea what it is teachers DO and assume we punch a clock at 0800 and start talking, and take two 15 minute breaks at 1000 and 2 and a 30 minute lunch at 1200 and at 1700 we stop talking and punch out.
Orion
Yukoneric over 13 years ago
I used to have a great job teaching adult education, until Pres Bush came along and spoiled the gravy train…………..