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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Easy solution: move the teacher "admin days" from during the school year to the summer.

The reason the union opposes it is that it cuts into the teachers' (paid) summer vacation.[/quote]

Teachers don't get paid for summer vacation. Or winter break, spring break or other days when school is closed. Moving professional days to the summer only hurts students because without them teachers don't have a chunk of time to input grades, plan for the upcoming marking period, collaborate with colleagues without it being scripted and for the benefit of admin, deep clean their classroom, file away materials and paperwork from the previous marking period, change bulletin boards, and other such things that can't be done with kids in the classroom. A lot of those things can't be done if all professional days were to be moved to the summer. From what I hear, the 3 extra days this past summer were filled with useless, time consuming mandated trainings from the county. 
-spouse of a teacher [/quote]

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