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Originally Posted by Yanda
This is a common misconception of uneducated parents with uneducated children. Teachers start holding meetings for the new school year in mid-august so really its only a bit over 5 weeks.
You also probably dont know that teachers work outside of school doing IPP's, Lesson Plans, Report Cards, in addition to marking tests and assignments.
They also need to spend there breaks doing supervision and come in early or stay late for meetings.
They get paid well because they were trained. Its a rough job and pointing at there salary and acting like a monkey makes you look ######ed because of the amount of work these people have to put in.
The sad thing is its probably your fault your child is doing poorly in school and you blame the teacher instead of yourself.
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lol, they get more like 10 weeks off, not five. Eight weeks in the summer, one at Christmas and one at Easter. Plus their teaching day is really only about 8:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. with an hour for lunch. Staying late would mean an 8-hour day in many cases. Plus I think ovetime is expected in any professional job, so I don't think when teachers do put in extra time it's not anything that sets them apart from other educated people.
On top of their salary, they get one of the most incredible pensions our of any other profession in our country.
But I'm not hating on teachers. It's an awesome gig in every way. My wife and I are going to advise our kids to become teachers and I hope they do. It really provides for a great lifestyle. Would be amazing if everybody was able to enjoy as much free time as teachers get.
I do buy gifts for our kids' teachers, though. I think it's nice and they do a good job for sure.