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Originally Posted by Sliver
As pointed out by another poster, for better or worse, overtime is expected in our society and largely uncompensated; however, I very much doubt that, on average, teachers put in 2.5 months of overtime in the 9 months a year they work.
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Well, let's do some math. Using the CBE's school calendar supplied by another poster, I counted 197 work days. I'm going to use a conservative estimate of 1 hour per day of unpaid overtime, however, anecdotal evidence supplied by other posters suggest this is lowballing. At straight time that comes out to 197 hours of overtime or 26 days assuming a typical 7.5 hour workday. That's 5 weeks. If we multiply that 197 hours by a typical overtime rate of 1.5, we now come up with 295.5 hours of OT. That's 39.4 days or just under 8 weeks. So much for summer vacation.