I get so tired of people gritching that "teachers get all summer off" We get paid for 186 days

[Honeycombe8]

21. I regard teachers highly. Very. But face it: you get the summer off, paid.

That's a fact. Don't try to hide it. Admit it and go forward.

Yes, yu work long hours, you incurred debt, you have CLE, etc. But what you don't understand is that many other workers have done and do the same thing, without having the summer off.

In my mind, that's okay. It makes it okay for your pay not to be equal to something else that you may have gone into, where you work a full year.

You have the opportunity to work for extra money in the summer and supplement your income, or take off and get your house in order, go on a vacation, spend time iwth your children, whatever. The things that most other workers don't have the opportunity to do.

No one hates you for it, that I'm aware of. But don't try to make it seem like you don't get paid summers off. Because you do.