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Originally Posted by Sliver
I don't know how you can say this nonsense in every teacher thread. Every job has requirements and responsibilities that go beyond the "day's work." What most jobs don't have are THREE MONTHS off per year to do that stuff in. Not to mention their day with students is really only like 6 hours long and they often have spares within that short day.
Have you even worked in the real world? There are seminars, business trips, late nights, weekend work, Blackberries, on-call responsibilities, etc. Being a teacher is a cake-walk compared to most corporate jobs and has the slackest schedule of any job, anywhere with very good pay - it's so good in fact they keep paying you for a few decades after you retire!
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Maybe you should be a teacher if it's so cushy. Your real world job sounds awfully tough and teachers got it pretty easy with the 6 hoursa day, 3 months off a year and free cake.
Knowing all that, explain to me why after 5 years, 1/2 of new teachers have quit, can't be the free cake could it?
I get that everyone has a "valid" opinion on education since we all were in the system, but what you see as a student or what you see from that guy you know is radically different from what you see when you're actually doing it.
let me ask you this, do you ever have a few drinks when you go for your out of town meetings, kickback when they day is done? the teachers I know go out of town with a dozen kids in a hotel for an out of town basketball tournament watching hallways at midnight and making sure NOBODY is having a drink.