All these days off...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, how dare non-Christians celebrate their holidays. Terrible.

Lifelong celebrator of the Christmas thing here...I would gladly give up the two week long vacation for the holidays. If we want to celebrate, we'll do it on our own time. These kids are never in school.

They literally receive the same amount of instructional hours as they have. The calendar traded other days for these holidays. Stop the pearl clutching.

Thank you! The kids ARE in school for the required amount of days.

And, from a teacher’s perspective, I catch up with all my work on these “days off.” I can’t imagine how I would survive if I didn’t get the occasional week day to grade and plan. I guess I’d just take more sick days to catch up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, how dare non-Christians celebrate their holidays. Terrible.

Lifelong celebrator of the Christmas thing here...I would gladly give up the two week long vacation for the holidays. If we want to celebrate, we'll do it on our own time. These kids are never in school.

They literally receive the same amount of instructional hours as they have. The calendar traded other days for these holidays. Stop the pearl clutching.

Thank you! The kids ARE in school for the required amount of days.

And, from a teacher’s perspective, I catch up with all my work on these “days off.” I can’t imagine how I would survive if I didn’t get the occasional week day to grade and plan. I guess I’d just take more sick days to catch up.

Occasional? Like every week. You are very entitled. Most of us with real jobs actually work 5 days every week ALL YEAR…

[Anonymous]

Must we have a new thread about this every single time there's a mid-week holiday?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Must we have a new thread about this every single time there's a mid-week holiday?

Apparently, we do…..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, how dare non-Christians celebrate their holidays. Terrible.

Lifelong celebrator of the Christmas thing here...I would gladly give up the two week long vacation for the holidays. If we want to celebrate, we'll do it on our own time. These kids are never in school.

They literally receive the same amount of instructional hours as they have. The calendar traded other days for these holidays. Stop the pearl clutching.

Thank you! The kids ARE in school for the required amount of days.

And, from a teacher’s perspective, I catch up with all my work on these “days off.” I can’t imagine how I would survive if I didn’t get the occasional week day to grade and plan. I guess I’d just take more sick days to catch up.

Occasional? Like every week. You are very entitled. Most of us with real jobs actually work 5 days every week ALL YEAR…

You chose that job - maybe teaching would be less stressful for you. Look at all the days off! LOL

[Anonymous]

Here’s what they should do- everyone gets 2 floating days to use for religious holidays that they can use without it being an absence. But keep school going!

This calendar is an embarrassment. I’m positive if parents voted or even all residents, this absolutely wouldn’t have been chosen. Why is there no week long fall break? Or a spring break separate from Easter?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, how dare non-Christians celebrate their holidays. Terrible.

Everyone is welcome to celebrate whatever holiday they want.

Let the rest of us go to school.

You don't really feel that way because you don't want to have school open on Christmas. You just want Christians to be special and have the calendar built around them.

This is the worst argument of all. It’s a federal holiday, goober

Right! Christmas has a large secular component and it’s a federal holiday. And it’s the only holiday that Christian’s get. The winter break is based around Christmas and New Years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, how dare non-Christians celebrate their holidays. Terrible.

Lifelong celebrator of the Christmas thing here...I would gladly give up the two week long vacation for the holidays. If we want to celebrate, we'll do it on our own time. These kids are never in school.

They literally receive the same amount of instructional hours as they have. The calendar traded other days for these holidays. Stop the pearl clutching.

Thank you! The kids ARE in school for the required amount of days.

And, from a teacher’s perspective, I catch up with all my work on these “days off.” I can’t imagine how I would survive if I didn’t get the occasional week day to grade and plan. I guess I’d just take more sick days to catch up.

Occasional? Like every week. You are very entitled. Most of us with real jobs actually work 5 days every week ALL YEAR…

You chose that job - maybe teaching would be less stressful for you. Look at all the days off! LOL

I’m good but thanks. It’s just amusing how completely out of touch teachers are. How in earth can people survive a 5 day week of work? How can I shop? How can I get my nails done?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, how dare non-Christians celebrate their holidays. Terrible.

Lifelong celebrator of the Christmas thing here...I would gladly give up the two week long vacation for the holidays. If we want to celebrate, we'll do it on our own time. These kids are never in school.

They literally receive the same amount of instructional hours as they have. The calendar traded other days for these holidays. Stop the pearl clutching.

Thank you! The kids ARE in school for the required amount of days.

And, from a teacher’s perspective, I catch up with all my work on these “days off.” I can’t imagine how I would survive if I didn’t get the occasional week day to grade and plan. I guess I’d just take more sick days to catch up.

Occasional? Like every week. You are very entitled. Most of us with real jobs actually work 5 days every week ALL YEAR…

Teachers frequently work 6-7 days per week, so perhaps the "day off" allows them to work only 5-6 days that week. They'll probably still work 11-14 hours each day, so "only" 55 to 84 hours. You're right, though, those teachers are so entitled to be grateful to only have to work 55-84 hours! What freeloaders they are!

I work approximately 50 hours per week, 50 weeks per year. 2500 hours.
My kids' teachers work 65-70 hours per week, 43 weeks per year. Approximately 2700-3000 hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Must we have a new thread about this every single time there's a mid-week holiday?

Maybe if the School Board could make a calendar that had some semblance of common sense, we wouldn't have to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, how dare non-Christians celebrate their holidays. Terrible.

Lifelong celebrator of the Christmas thing here...I would gladly give up the two week long vacation for the holidays. If we want to celebrate, we'll do it on our own time. These kids are never in school.

They literally receive the same amount of instructional hours as they have. The calendar traded other days for these holidays. Stop the pearl clutching.

Thank you! The kids ARE in school for the required amount of days.

And, from a teacher’s perspective, I catch up with all my work on these “days off.” I can’t imagine how I would survive if I didn’t get the occasional week day to grade and plan. I guess I’d just take more sick days to catch up.

Occasional? Like every week. You are very entitled. Most of us with real jobs actually work 5 days every week ALL YEAR…

Teacher PP here.

Well, I usually work 7 days a week thanks to how much I have to bring home. When I get a weekday “off,” that means I may get to see my own family on a Saturday or Sunday. Is that the same at your job?

Why don’t you teach, if you think we have it so great? We have an opening in my department as I type. Please apply!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, how dare non-Christians celebrate their holidays. Terrible.

Lifelong celebrator of the Christmas thing here...I would gladly give up the two week long vacation for the holidays. If we want to celebrate, we'll do it on our own time. These kids are never in school.

They literally receive the same amount of instructional hours as they have. The calendar traded other days for these holidays. Stop the pearl clutching.

Thank you! The kids ARE in school for the required amount of days.

And, from a teacher’s perspective, I catch up with all my work on these “days off.” I can’t imagine how I would survive if I didn’t get the occasional week day to grade and plan. I guess I’d just take more sick days to catch up.

Occasional? Like every week. You are very entitled. Most of us with real jobs actually work 5 days every week ALL YEAR…

You chose that job - maybe teaching would be less stressful for you. Look at all the days off! LOL

I’m good but thanks. It’s just amusing how completely out of touch teachers are. How in earth can people survive a 5 day week of work? How can I shop? How can I get my nails done?

If you’re not willing to do it yourself, then you shouldn’t be insulting it.

[Anonymous]

Again, and again. Every single post on this forum turns into a teacher bashing post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Again, and again. Every single post on this forum turns into a teacher bashing post.

It’s what this site does best. Posters who haven’t been in the classroom since they were in high school themselves like to tell teachers how easy the job is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Again, and again. Every single post on this forum turns into a teacher bashing post.

It’s what this site does best. Posters who haven’t been in the classroom since they were in high school themselves like to tell teachers how easy the job is.

I keep hoping the loudest voices bashing teachers are just a bitter few—people who, somewhere deep down, know they couldn’t do what teachers do. I want to believe that their cruelty is a mask for their own inadequacy.

But the fear lingers: that the vitriol isn’t just fringe noise, but a reflection of something more widespread, more insidious. And that makes the quiet support harder for good teachers to hear, even when it’s there.