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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK, you say you're shocked at our views, but what are your views of the[b] IRS and the DMV?[/b] Or service employees?

You want to be respectful but the parts where service wasn't what you hoped for are the parts you tend to remember. It's kind of human nature.[/quote]

IRS and DMV employees are part of bureaucratic machinery that is debatably efficent. The correlary here is DCPS Central office employees (and federal agency employees).

i do agree that the unpaid summer person is not helping the cause. It's very annoying. When I was a teacher the vast majority of my colleagues took the summers off. Maybe they would do to a special training for a couple weeks. It's totally fine and it's fine to own up to that. [/quote]

I'm a fed who has posted earlier, and people dump all over feds on this site, too.  But I don't care because I like my job and what I do.

I do also agree the "summers off" vs. "summers unpaid" is really splitting hairs and just seems like gratuitous whining.  I can't think what a luxury it would be for me to have *a choice* about whether to work or not in the summer.  Maybe I would work most summers but take just one or two off during my kids' childhood so we could do extended travel.  But I don't have that option because by the time I use my annual leave for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and spring break (which teachers all get off), I only have at most another week or two by summer.

Btw, we also pay contributions for our pensions.[/quote]

I’m one of the “unpaid summers” posters. What you are failing to acknowledge is that some of us can’t afford a summer off. When you make $70K and you’re a single mother, for example, summer isn’t the luxury you’re envisioning. For some, it’s a mad dash to summer employment (teaching summer school, working retail…).

So what you call “gratuitous whining” is actually a problem for some of us. I’d prefer year-round work for the stability it would provide. See how grass can be greener? [/quote]

But you CAN work during the summer, if you want to, and that adds more to your yearly income.

I work all summer, just like the rest of the year, for the salary that you are comparing your 10-month salary to.  Do you see how those things are not really comparable?[/quote]

And if it works for you, great! It must be since I don’t see you writing about leaving your job.

I’m saying my set-up doesn’t work for me. I’m tired of working 10 months at a backbreaking pace just to find additional employment because I need the money. So I’m doing what others are doing: I’m leaving teaching.

My reality doesn’t impact you at all. This thread is about teacher pay. Im saying it’s not enough. Plenty of others are also saying that, which is why we are facing major shortages. Telling us we should be grateful for our conditions doesn’t change that.
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