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Originally Posted by malcolmk14

- Retired teachers on a full pension who still work more than a day or two a week are incredibly rare. There is no "top" of the substitute list. There is just the substitute list. I've met maybe 2 or 3 teachers in ten years who are retired with full pensions and still choose to sub. Most subs have left the profession early and given up their contracts, are middle-aged with young families and sub for casual work, or young teachers who have not secured contracts yet.

- Association dues are about $1,500 a year for a full-time working teacher.

- Vacation time is vacation time. I'm not required to be at the school during vacation time. Teachers arrive August 28th (3 days before the kids) and leave June 30th (2 days after the kids) and anything else is voluntary.

- There is no such thing as prep time. There is instructional time, which is capped at 916 hours per school year, and assigned time, which is capped at 1,200 hours per school year. "Prep" time as you know it is unassigned time, where the teacher is free to do anything. That's just personal time where teachers choose to prepare for classes so that they have something to teach.

- Yes, absolutely. You couldn't pay me enough to do that job.

- I wonder how other provinces do it. I don't think Alberta is unique. I imagine while this might save a meagre amount of administrative costs it would add a lot of other problems.

Does the 1200 hrs assigned time include the pd days? I should know this as my spouse is a teacher, but that number seems to imply a fair bit of time to prepare during the school day, and that is simply not the case for her. It may differ a bit for elementary vs high school, as to how the assigned time is actually spent.