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

[Honeycombe8]

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

If not, then summer is vacation for you.

I technically may not be paid for my vacation, either. It's given to me, but my employer can rescind that and keep my salary at the same level, since technically I'm not "paid" for my vacation. But it was a deal when I was hired: I get an annual salary, and I am allowed certain federal holidays off and several weeks of "vacation." It's part of my employment, and I am paid an annual salary for the whole deal...which includes vacation. It's the same thing with teachers.

So if teachers don't get a "vacation" in the summer, then I don't get a vacation, either. It's the same, except teachers' vacation must be at the same time every year, and is longer than it is for other workers.

I am actually encouraged not to take all my vacation time. If I don't, they'll recompense me PART of the time I don't take. Does that mean I wasn't paid for it to begin with? Not at all. It's a benefit that came with my job. Just like summer vacation is a benefit for teachers. Except for substitute teachers or maybe some teachers under special contracts, where they really DON'T get paid except for the actual days/hours they work. And they don't have a guaranteed job. They contract on a temp basis.