Sliver is pretty over the top about teachers, (well, about everything) but it is a pretty good gig. My dad and brother are both teachers, and they've got it pretty good. They do spend a lot of extracurricular time volunteering for the school through sports programs, drama, etc. A lot. Maybe that's special, because it's a fairly small private school they teach at. I'd say they put in pretty close to 50 hours a week through a pretty solid chunk of the year. My brother more than my dad, as my dad is established, got the courses he wants to teach and has taught them for a while. My brother's in his second year, so there's a lot of prep and learning.
But the idea of having a 6 week completely uninterrupted vacation over the summer every single year is incredible. It really is hard to beat. And that's just the start of their vacations. Crazy.
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