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Originally Posted by Clever_Iggy
Stop speaking out of ignorance. Either you have no idea what you're talking about, you're generalizing an entire profession based on some jaded experience you had in CBE or you are a sensationalist like Ann Coulter that undercuts any rational or reasonable opinion you may have.
This has been alluded to by another poster(s) (perhaps Vlad): it's not necessarily the profession that's the problem, it's the union. On top of that (borrowing again from another poster) it's parents unrealistic expectations of teachers and an unwillingness to do their part in education.
There are lots, I would wager a strong majority, that put in 60+ hours a week to lesson planning, grading, report cards, meetings, extra cirricular activites, etc... You never saw it because after school you went home. Some teachers may have left at the same time you did, and you base all of your opinion evidence on them. Did you see what they did when they got home? Perhaps they worked for another 5+ hours at home grading. Did you see them on weekends?
I get that you think there are a lot of perks to teaching and you don't think it's as tough as the profession you currently hold. I also get that you think a lot of teachers skate by on minimal effort. This is true. But it's also true of every single other profession - including yours and mine.
So until you walk a mile in a teacher's shoes and can truly speak from experience rather than broad conclusions based on your observations as a student....STFU.
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You couldn't be more wrong. There are 52 weeks in a year for which teachers get paid a full-time salary. Of those weeks, they work ~36. Even if they put in a 60-70 hour week (which is an absolute fabrication and I can't even believe I'm entertaining such an assinine notion), average that out over the 0 hours per week they work on the 16 weeks they're not teaching and it becomes quite obvious and yet again, they work less than everybody else that works 40 hours per week.
But wait, people in corporate jobs don't work 40 hours a week. My experience in corporate jobs had me on call weekends and I'd often be at the office until 1 or 2 in the morning...even put in a couple of all-nighters. You would never be able to find anybody in a corporate job that works less hours per year than a teacher.
May I ask a question and I sincerely don't mean to be rude, but are you ######ed?