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montanto

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45. 182 days at 6 paid hours per day for me.

Thu Mar 15, 2012, 06:53 PM

Mar 2012

I work from 7 to 4 daily at minimum, 7 to 7 at least two days per week, take no breaks except to go to the bathroom, eat lunch at my desk while grading / planning; rarely, rarely, rarely say a word to a colleague that isn't part of my work. I can't pick up my dry-cleaning (not that I have any. Bonus!!) or drop my car off at Jiffylube during the day, much less take or receive personal phone calls. I work until 9 at home grading papers, Saturdays, hell, sometimes all weekend. I buy food for kids, I buy paper, pencils, art supplies for kids out of my own pocket. If teachers in general are not bargain laborers I don't know who would be. And summer is only six weeks long here. The way I figure it the state gets more than 1/3 of my efforts free of charge. Shouldn't that buy me 6 weeks of peace and quite from loonies who don't know that that money is stopped out of my earnings the rest of the year? And debt? Hell, I'm almost fifty and still working down my college loans, still paying for continuing ed.

Yeah, I hear you. The taxpayers don't have to pay me for my summers, I just wish they'd pay me for what I do.

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I get so tired of people gritching that "teachers get all summer off" We get paid for 186 days [View all] demtenjeep Mar 2012 OP

You have my total admiration and support. Teachers by and large do a remarkable job and certainly teddy51 Mar 2012 #1

K/R They also don't know that we can't deduct all the supplies we buy, or realize... NYC_SKP Mar 2012 #2

I tend to do a lot of hands on projects for end of unit wrap ups demtenjeep Mar 2012 #32

A lot of teachers also bring fruit and snacks and food, secretively... NYC_SKP Mar 2012 #33

yea, I always have a stash of something to snack on demtenjeep Mar 2012 #34

Note to public: Teachers d/not get paid tax dollars f/the periods of time school is not in session. MichiganVote Mar 2012 #3

Exactly, thank you! NYC_SKP Mar 2012 #6

My husband was a teacher for 32 years. If they ever paid him for his michaz Mar 2012 #4

My wife is a teacher and what I have found to shut them up is this, gopiscrap Mar 2012 #5

Many don't even get there summers off (I know this is a matter of choice) but many go back to school teddy51 Mar 2012 #7

My wife has taken 6 summers off in 31 years of teaching gopiscrap Mar 2012 #39

teachers perform one of the if not THE dana_b Mar 2012 #8

Yes, when you average it out, it's less than other jobs. And teachers... freshwest Mar 2012 #9

These people must not have made it past 3rd grade Mopar151 Mar 2012 #10

Except that teachers don't even get paid for there 2000 hours per year. They don't get teddy51 Mar 2012 #12

The argument I have heard to that one is... liberal N proud Mar 2012 #11

Probably many actually do get an extra job in the summer to augment there income's. n/t teddy51 Mar 2012 #13

Don't listen to the ignorance. I know my brother use to be a teacher until he retired. southernyankeebelle Mar 2012 #14

Sorry you have to put up that stuff abelenkpe Mar 2012 #15

You might like this. progressoid Mar 2012 #16

If teachers were paid to babysit, they'd be living large Kennah Mar 2012 #17

this one? demtenjeep Mar 2012 #23

It's simple. You don't want teachers to have summers off, jerseyjack Mar 2012 #18

Sorry MJJP21 Mar 2012 #19

what a load of bullshit demtenjeep Mar 2012 #20

What a bunch of crap. kcass1954 Mar 2012 #25

Um... no. Hissyspit Mar 2012 #26

That's not how it is these days. knitter4democracy Mar 2012 #35

Since teaching is such a soft touch, sulphurdunn Mar 2012 #40

There is no tenure for teachers in Texas. mbperrin Mar 2012 #55

What everybody above me said, plus... Goblinmonger Mar 2012 #57

I regard teachers highly. Very. But face it: you get the summer off, paid. Honeycombe8 Mar 2012 #21

again, we get paid for 186 days demtenjeep Mar 2012 #22

UFT.org emilyg Mar 2012 #29

That's just how they divide up the checks. Depends on the way you look at it: Honeycombe8 Mar 2012 #48

A whole bucket of money? Goblinmonger Mar 2012 #58

No teacher gets summer off, paid. Starry Messenger Mar 2012 #24

From UFT.org emilyg Mar 2012 #28

That's having your checks pro-rated. Starry Messenger Mar 2012 #30

This message was self-deleted by its author sulphurdunn Mar 2012 #43

Sure it is. Summer is VACATION. Are teachers fired every year? Honeycombe8 Mar 2012 #49

That is very silly. Vacation time for a worker is paid time off. Starry Messenger Mar 2012 #53

You need to talk to an actual teacher, or a seasonal worker in a different field. NYC_SKP Mar 2012 #27

exactly right. I get paid 12 months for 186 days. demtenjeep Mar 2012 #31

That's like saying I'm not paid for my 4 weeks' vacation. Honeycombe8 Mar 2012 #50

Do you have to go to school during your 4 weeks' vacation? proud2BlibKansan Mar 2012 #56

so you actually DO get paid for not working yet you criticize teachers who actually DON'T.... mike_c Mar 2012 #66

If I don't work, I don't get paid. knitter4democracy Mar 2012 #36

no, teachers get summer off UNPAID.... mike_c Mar 2012 #41

So you get fired every year and have to re-apply, so that you're unemployed every summer? Honeycombe8 Mar 2012 #51

Actually, in many areas teachers ARE unemployed during the summer. FBaggins Mar 2012 #54

I don't know why you find this so hard to understand.... mike_c Mar 2012 #60

Every time I've been a salaried teacher, yes. knitter4democracy Mar 2012 #67

How many jobs require unpaid HOMEWORK almost every night ? eppur_se_muova Mar 2012 #37

For the first 12 years of my career, I had to get summer jobs. Reader Rabbit Mar 2012 #38

My wife was a teacher Canuckistanian Mar 2012 #42

Ivan's Goat sulphurdunn Mar 2012 #44

182 days at 6 paid hours per day for me. montanto Mar 2012 #45

The taxpayers don't have to pay me for my summers, I just wish they'd pay me for what I do. demtenjeep Mar 2012 #46

Absolutely! montanto Mar 2012 #61

And I'd settle for a few supplies proud2BlibKansan Mar 2012 #62

Study: Teachers Work the Same Number of Hours as Average U.S. Worker NYC_SKP Mar 2012 #47

Well, aren't those hours as reported by teachers for work done away from school? Honeycombe8 Mar 2012 #52

How much you get paid for that OT? Goblinmonger Mar 2012 #59

I sign in each morning at 6:45, and I sign out at 3:15 each afternoon. mbperrin Mar 2012 #63

sadly, some are not going to learn demtenjeep Mar 2012 #64

"Thank you for your service, demtenjeep." NYC_SKP Mar 2012 #65