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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can't imagine a salary job where, if I were behind on my work, I wouldn't have to spend a few hours getting caught up on the weekend, or on one of the 17 days of winter break, or on a snow day. Teaching is not a job where you punch the time clock. Why is it treated that way?[/quote]

You also probably can't imagine a salary job where after meeting burnout, you cannot simply go into your cubicle or office and decompress. You probably also can't imagine not being able to go to the bathroom the second you feel like it.

In teaching, you have to always be ON during the day. ALWAYS. You don't teach classes, sit through meetings, rush through work while "having lunch" then chat it up with colleagues in their cubicles or sit in your office rubbing your temples for 20 minutes before getting back to work. You run out of yet one more meeting to a classroom full of innocent faces staring at you waiting to see what you have planned for the day. And you've gotta be on READY.

Teachers do the best they can. Those vacation times are needed so they can go back to work and be SANE for your children. And yeah, work is also being done during that time as well but with 150+ stduents, be lucky your child ever sees graded work.[/quote]

It sounds like you imagine every job that isn't teaching is an office job. I have plenty of respect for teachers and how hard their job is, but teaching isn't the only job that doesn't allow for quiet time in an office, or constant customer interaction, or lacks a lunch hour. I run a restaurant and that describes my job, too. I could go on about the other ways in which my time off is sometimes not my own, but in my experience, that's part of the job unless you're a low level or hourly employee. [/quote]

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