[Derek Sutton]

Originally Posted by Sliver

This is wild. There aren't minuses to having summers off...particularly in Canada where so many vacation spots and activities are seasonal. How many campgrounds open for May Long and close after September Long, as an example? Half the year roads aren't even at their safest for travel. Kids are off during the summer (for families), so nothing could be more convenient. What time of year can you enjoy your yard, paint your house, build your fence, go bike riding in Fish Creek, etc. etc.?

And then in winter...who doesn't want a couple weeks off around Christmas to spend time with loved ones?

To say their time off doesn't coincide with the best times of year for vacation days is, honestly, super dumb.



I hear this and I always wonder if people are saying it with a straight face of just trying to get a rise out of the rest of us who started work with two weeks off a year (it's three, now), but had to work the first 12 months before being eligible for any time off at all.

Burnout can hit anyone, but barely anybody has two months off to look forward to just a couple months after their last week off, which was just a couple months after their last two weeks off.

I've been silent in this thread as I'm not in the mood for being the poster boy for pointing out that being a teacher is a terrific career (for whatever reason teachers want us to think they have it rough, which I believe is their union trying to incite them, but whatever), but nobody should be humouring this ridiculous notion that teachers don't have absolutely outstanding holiday benefits. They run the same schedule seven-year-olds run FFS.

Best comment in the whole thread.