buy your teacher a nice end of the school year gift please!

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Anonymous wrote:Get a summer job and it won’t be a problem. I’d agree to make 30% less money if I had summers off.

Oh yes, the “summers off” statement. When you work 60+ hours a week at a job that provides absolutely no down time and no flexibility, those UNPAID summers become the only break you get.

And many of us end up working job #2. It’s not like we are lazing around the pool.

And on topic: please don’t get me anything. I’m a professional and I’m simply doing my job.

Sorry, this still doesn't fly. You have multiple long weekends, 1-2 week winter break, federal holidays, 1 week spring break -- all during your PAID months of the year. And while you will likely say you are still working during all of those days off, don't expect us to believe all or even most teachers are. For "no flexibility" and "no down time," there are an awful lot of teachers MIA the last weeks of the school year.

Teachers don't seem to realize or acknowledge that there are a lot of other professions in which people work 60+ hours a week YEAR ROUND and don't get every Federal and religious holiday and two weeks around Christmas/New Year's. Paid leave benefits vary widely. Fed Gov't is very generous. Some private companies, extremely stingy - literally 5 vacation days and 5 personal days (which includes sick leave) even with 20+ years work experience.

If teachers have such generous benefits, then why aren’t all the DCUM complainers applying to teach? That would easily take care of the teacher shortage in the region.

I’m guessing that’s because complainers have most or all of the following: better pay, more flexibility, a better work/life balance, calmer working environments, and more professional respect.

For as good as you want it to sound, I simply don’t see people jumping at the chance to teach. It’s almost like people know it’s not a good deal?

It’s very simple actually. I’m not a teacher because I don’t think I would be able to work with kids all day and come back to my kids. I’m also not good at teaching. I am good at learning though which is why I got to where I am. Also most of us are the profession we are because we found ourselves in it. So no we aren’t all going to suddenly quit, get a teaching certification and teach. My friend is an ESL teacher in Fairfax county and loves her days off. She thinks the teacher schedule is great as it allows her to balance raising her three kids with work. When she complains it’s about whiny coworkers who hate the kids they work with (specifically she can’t stand it when coworkers medically diagnose a kid with something like adhd and push parents to put the kid on medication). She also can’t stand admin who refuse to discipline kids who are distrupting the class for everyone else. But she doesn’t pretend, like pp that her schedule isn’t great.

I agree that teachers should be paid more and admin should go back to disciplining kids. But I do find it disgusting that a teacher would come here and tell us to give teachers more gifts. My kids are in elementary school and we have room parents. We basically fork out money for a holiday gift, a gift on teachers appreciation week, a gift for the teachers birthday and an end of the year gift. Pretty insane if you ask me but I do it regardless. At least my kids teachers seem grateful unlike this OP

I’m like your friend. I love working with kids but I love the schedule and being with my kid even more. My friends have perks at their job, I have mine. Sometimes I buy teacher gifts, sometimes I get them. It’s all good.