Reply #7: Ah another "oh don't teachers have a great, easy life" person.

[Bouncy Ball]

I thought we were done with the Great Teacher Wars of DU. You missed them. Too bad you couldn't get your digs in then.

And uh, by the way, teachers don't work less than half the days of the year. When you consider mandatory staff development over the summer, inservice weeks BEFORE the school year starts, and all the days you spend sitting on your living room floor surrounded by books and papers and planning out the school year, AND when you consider 60-70 hour work weeks DURING the school year (easily--tutoring, after school activities, grading, lesson planning, parent conferences, meetings, etc), then you really don't have such an easy-peasy life, now do you?

And if you envy it so much, go do it. Lots of states have teacher shortages. Go find out how much time you have off. Somehow I don't think you could handle it. That "so much time off" myth is just perpetuated to suck people into the profession, thinking they'll have an easy life. The ones who are disappointed by what they find quickly leave.

LOL