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Originally Posted by Sliver
Hah, teachers jealous of the standard two weeks a year a lot of people start out with? That's a new one.
You may think your schedule of getting to go away for a week during the third week of November is awesome now, but wait until you have kids. You get a fraction of the days off they get, but you still have to arrange childcare on the days they have off. If you're a teacher, you have the same amount of days off as a school child.
Also, how can you think having the two nicest months off per year and two weeks at Christmas and a week or two in the spring is not the best scenario? Those are literally the best times of year to have off. And finally, if teachers want to take time off during the year, they can! And while they're away another teacher comes to their class and does their work for them. Hell, if they want to take a year off they can and still come back to a job. How deadly is that?
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As an educator, I agree. I have never felt the least bit annoyed about my vacation time being in the summer or over major holidays. I have no problem working around busy travel times with my four months off each year.
The teaching profession is not for everyone, and vacations are not a good reason to get into it, but I don't know anyone in K-12 education who complains about their vacation time.