Reply #33: But very few people work that hard

[Midlodemocrat]

with the education a teacher requires for that money. The kind of hours you are describing sound more like blue collar jobs, and for the most part, individuals who take those jobs do not have the level of education a teacher does. Not true in every case, but most. And, your math is incorrect. Most people do not work seven days a week, they work five, so 180 days is not half of the work that you do.

Additionally, most teachers I know, myself included, had to take summer jobs to pay for their living expenses, so that sort of shoots the whole summer off theory. The only teachers I know who take the summer off are ones where they are the second income. I don't know one who could afford to do it who was single.

I taught high school for ten years. I left for many reasons, one of the biggest being attitudes like yours. For God's sake, we are teaching the children of this country. Teachers deserve better salaries and more respect.

I currently work for a non profit earning quite a bit more than I did when I taught. I work hard, but nowhere near as hard as I did when I was teaching.