Jerry Eichenberger wrote on 10/20/10 at 11:53:26:Teachers' summer vacation isn't really 3 months around here, but rather about 9 to 10 weeks.
But then, there is Christmas break of about 10 days, and at least a week for spring break.
So, total time off is about 3 months. Then, almost never a weekend day, and usually out the door by 4 PM unless the teacher voluntarily coaches or does extra things, for which he/she gets extra pay.
How many $111K per year jobs have a schedule like that?
Some will say that papers have to be graded at night and lesson plans prepared at night. True if you bug out of school at 4 PM, but stay there till 6 PM, or later, like most $111K executives do, and there's little that has to be done after work.
I too have no problem with teachers making a decent income; my undergrad degree is in education. But I do think $111K is excessive for the work hours required, the vast amounts of time off, and the education needed. Heck, many teachers are married to teachers - how many couples have a combined income in excess of $220K, again with all of the time off and short work hours? Darn few.
where on earth do you get those numbers ? my Wife was a teacher in a poor neigborhood, San Bernardino,she made $38,000 a year, we were thinking of moving to New Orleans but the pay there was only $28,000 per yearAt the school in San Bernardino every kid in her class
wore the same clothes every day,monday through friday, I used to go to Cosco and by huge boxes of peanut butter cookies, My wife could hand em out to the kids who kept falling asleep for the lack of food,that was all of them. The kids loved her and insisted on giving he hugs as they filed out, she would get home and run the hot water heater out of hot water while taking a half hour shower. She deserved twice what she was paid.