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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^^P.S.  No teacher (other than part-time teachers) works a six-hour day.  [/quote]

I drop my child off at the kiss n ride 15 minutes before the first bell (8:45am) and there are teachers walking in for the day every single day.  The one day a week she has an activity that I pick her up at 4:15pm (I usually get there at 4:10pm) the staff parking lot is completely empty.  I am so sick of people saying teachers work these 8-10hr days.  [b]Grading papers at home at night doesn't count. [/b] I work 8-10hrs a day in an office and still come home and do some work at night.  As do most jobs these days.  EMT's make $15/hr and work weekends, nights, save lives, put themselves in harms way, etc.. but somehow a teacher deserves $100K while having off all summer?  No.  [/quote]

[b]It doesn't? Why doesn't it?[/b]

And again -- who is talking about [i]deserves[/i]? Compensation has nothing to do with what people deserve. Otherwise people who take care of children and old people would be rich, and lobbyists and botox dermatologists would earn -- well, a whole lot less. If you want good teachers,  you have to pay enough to attract good teachers. If you don't think teachers should get paid much, you won't attract good teachers.

Also, could you please explain how you drop your child off at 8:45, pick her up at 4:15, and put in an 8-10-hour day at the office?[/quote]

Because almost every person in America that receives a salary works outside of 40hrs and teachers don't even work 40hrs before their "outside" work starts.  [b]No public school in MCPS has an 8hr day. All of them are 6hrs[/b] and about 2hrs of that is not directly with students.  So teachers work 4hrs a day with our kids and 2hrs of lunch or planning.  For the rest of the world who does work your "8-10hr day at the office" as you said above, there are cell phone calls, texts, take-offs, marketing, papers, emails, editing, proofreading, online telecommute, follow-ups, etc... all done at home - just like a teacher sitting and grading papers on a couch or in bed.   
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That is the student day, not the teacher work day. Look at the reporting hours on the contract. Teachers have been disciplined or fired for arriving later or leaving earlier than the contractual work day.[/quote]

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