Alright hold on now.
Ann Coulter is an idiot but I think she is kinda right on this one.
In high school for example, teachers teach 3 blocks a day - about 1hr30min each block for a total of 4hr30min every day. They get one block 'prep time' where they have time to prepare lectures or finish up marking or whatever. The first class starts at 9am, the last class ends at 4pm. They get an hour lunch. One day of the week is usually 'early dismissal' where classes are 3/4ths as long as they normally are. It is absolute nonsense that teachers are overworked. They literally work for 4hr30min a day. They get a nice winter break and a 2 month long summer break. All paid of course. (see
http://www.ahsrockets.org/images/pro...h_schedule.gif for what a typical schedule for a student looks like)
The time spent on 'preparing lectures' is a bunch of nonsense. Most teachers have to do this ONCE and they can reuse their work time and time again for years (with minor adjustments).
The time spent on 'marking' is a bunch of nonsense too. When you teach 4hr30min a day, you have a lot of time on your hands that you can use for marking. And in my classes the teachers wouldnt even mark many of the assignments themselves. They would either do a walk around the classroom and give 'completion' marks, or have students themselves mark the assignments ('everyone pass your math assignment to the person behind you..').
Teachers have one of the cushiest jobs in the world. Unbelievable that they would think otherwise.