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Originally Posted by Sliver
I would love to hear from the people on this board that work a seven hour day and get six weeks off a year with paid OT and bonuses. Do you really believe that's normal in the business world? Maybe there are a handful of exceptions, but come on.
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I know many people in the professional world that this is the case. Do they work the actual 7 hour days? Not all of them, but they get paid for extra work that they do through OT or bonuses. Teachers do not get OT or bonuses.
I will ask you this, would you be happy if a teacher were to work a regular work week 7.5 hour day regular 3 week holiday but get paid OT for all the extra work they put in during the year? If you are ok with this then they would be paid a lot more than what they are paid now if you include the OT. OR they could use the OT that they bank and take the extra time off during the summer which would even out.
If you really crunch the numbers man it all works out with the extra time off.
You also have to consider that a teacher that has taught for 30 years gets the same amount of time off as a teacher who has taught for 1 year. No where else in the professional field is it like this. The more time you have in the more time you get in annual leave. Most government workers after 30 years of service get 7-10 weeks of vacation leave.
You keep trying to compare teachers to other professions and the fact that it is such a different profession you cannot compare them.