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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My private sector company is also giving 3%.[/quote]

I’m sure your salaries are much higher to begin with. [/quote]
My child's teacher makes $80k+[/quote]

Ok. Unless they are married, 80,000 doesn’t get you much in this area. Salaries should match COL. [/quote]

Well, $80,000 is really for working only 9 months of the year once you take out all those endless summer and winter vacations. So $80k/9*12 = $106,666 on an annualized basis. Plus pension plus lavish benefits.[/quote]

Where do these teachers work? I want endless summer and winter vacations!

I work 10 months full of 60 hour weeks, [b]and then I’m furloughed for two months[/b]. 
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See, it's this crappy attitude on the part of teachers that has burned a lot of goodwill with parents and the public. The endless summer vacations are obviously a HUGE benefit of your job, and yet you frame it in the most miserable way possible by calling it furlough.

Also many other jobs require 12 months of work full of 60 hour weeks if not more. The truly unique thing about teachers compared to other professions is their seemingly endless ability to whine and think that only they have it hard.[/quote]

Do those other 60+ week jobs get compensated considerably more? I’m guessing most do.

And do those other 60+ hour week jobs require you to give 30+ hours of presentations a week to 150 people a day, or can you sit at your desk in a more stress-free manner?

Nobody said you can’t have it hard. Perhaps you do. You also can’t tell teachers that an ***unpaid*** summer is somehow a big enough perk that they should remain silent about the unreasonable and unsustainable expectations during the other 10 months.

Join us if you think that summer is worth it. Seriously. I suspect you know it isn’t a good enough trade-off.

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