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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But the students aren't suppose to miss school for an uncle's wedding or cousin's college graduation.[/quote]
Dumbass, students and teachers aren't the same.  Teaching is a job like any other job.  Home school if you don't like it.[/quote]

Former teacher here and daughter of a teacher.

It is not the same.

[b]Teachers get many additional vacation days: spring break, winter break, thanksgiving and 8-12 weeks of summer vacation depending on the state.[/b]

Yes, they work very hard but to act like they are indentured servants for the 40 ish weeks out of 52 that they actually do work is quite dramatic to say the least.[/quote]

Yes, I'm sure teachers are very successful telling family members that they have to schedule weddings, funerals, special anniversaries and such during Spring break or summer.  "No Mom, you can't have your 50th wedding anniversary party on the day you were married.  Can't you move it to July?"  "Why couldn't Dad have died during Spring break instead of during a regular school week?"[/quote]

If you could read you would undersrand that I never said teachers should not be able to take off during the year for major ane important events.

What I did say was referring to them as "indentured servants" is a little rich, given that they have so many other vacations throughout the year.

Lets face it, of all the careers in this world, teachers are the ones least starving for vacation time off work.

How do I know this?  I was a teacher. My mom was a teacher.

Teachers have many job related challenges.

Vacation days are not one of them

To act like vacation days are one of the sacrifices teachers are making for our children is completely laughable.[/quote]

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