[tanguay'sstillgood]

Originally Posted by DESS

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?

True, why would you entertain this notion? Which one of us has been a first year teacher and actually has real life knowledge of the subject? Which one of us routinely got to work at 8am, got home at 9pm, worked for a few more hours, then repeated the next day? Which one of us worked every Sunday after they kept that other schedule all week? I clearly see why you should dismiss this claim as unrealistic.

Lets check your math:

36 weeks (which was your number, but the actual number is about 39) x 60 hours (the low end of the scale you apparently 'entertained') = 2160 hours

50 weeks (assuming 2 weeks holidays for other jobs - probably low) x 40 hours = 2000 hours

Weird...my results don't match your well thought out and reasearched conclusion...

What job do you do that has you so bitter about all the luxuries teachers enjoy?

Clever_Iggy...I believe your claim of "Speaking out of ignorance" has kinda been proven now (as if it hadn't been before).