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[b]Nonetheless, teachers do not work the full 12 months.  Some of us work 12 months with 2 weeks of vacation time.  [/b]Even if you work 10 months, you have the option of working those additional 9 weeks.  You have the option of taking work such as summer camp, special ed, summer school, and other programs that will earn you additional income.  Or even work outside of education.  Most of us have our salary and the only way to make additional income is to work evenings or weekends.  So, if you opt to do continuing ed or other programs that train you, that is your choice.  However, you do have the choice to take another job for 9-10 weeks and earn income on top of your teacher salary.  While the 12/10 factor may not be accurate since your interim job probably does not pay as much as your regular salary, your salary is still only a portion of your earning potential as a teacher.  That is the point.[/quote]

Very few professionals work twelve months.  PP lawyer here w/31 days of PTO, that's six weeks off.  I have never had only two weeks of paid time off in any professional job I've ever worked (and I'm 51yo and went to law school after working for years).

Moreover, while teachers have the option to take another job for 9 or 10 weeks, whatever job you can get for that filler-time doesn't pay much.  Summer camp, summer school - piddly pay.  That's a fact.

And if you did work all those other weeks, that would leave you with little vacation to replenish your reserves.[/quote]

PP you quoted.  Actually, I've worked in IT for 24 years.  Especially in federal contracting, but even before then in private.  Each of my 5 employers has started employees at 2 weeks vacation for 1 or 2 years.  Then you go up to 3 weeks of vacation until about 5 years, then you got 4 weeks between 5-10 years.  My current employer is it 2 weeks for the first year, 3 weeks for 1+ to 10 years and 4 weeks for 10+ years.  And this includes all staff for a roughly 500 employee company, so that's IT, admin, corporate management, etc.   One of my employers was a big defense industry company (one was over 65K employees) and it was pretty comparable there, too.  My father worked for a major engineering corporation (over 15K employees)  for 34 years and it was pretty similar there.  
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