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[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.

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

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]

I am not sure where you work that you claim 8-12 weeks occur each summer for teachers.  It is more like 5 weeks...July essentially (plus part of end of June).  In my district our last day is June 23rd and most of the staff returns the first week of August; a few teachers return the 2nd week of August.  In addition during the summer all are creating new lesson plans, as the curriculum changes and/or grade level assignments change.
Yes, there is spring break and winter break..Thanksgiving is pretty much standard for all companies, not just schools so no need to include that (excluding retail, who probably work more during Thanksgiving).

I honestly don't think you are a former teacher, or if you are it has been a decade or so since you retired. Each summer gets shorter and shorter in terms of time off, and expectations increase...including creating lesson plans for all levels in one class..for example 2nd grade leveled readers with college level readers in one "open" honors class...it is up to the teacher to figure out how to teach Animal Farm to these extremes...and that does require extensive work during the summer to plan for all of the novels, writing assignments etc...

But back to the issue at hand...sometimes life happens, and folks take off from work....[/quote]

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