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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My husband came to teaching as a second career after being a lawyer for 25 years.  He works three times for a fraction of the pay.  Teacher work days are not "days off".  DH goes to school at the appointed hour on every one of them.

He is required to be in school mid-August to approx.  June 30 (we can't plan during to be away during snow contingencies at the end of June, which have been used the past 2 years for the system DH works in).  If you figure that out, that makes for 6 weeks off (30 work days), in the summer.  Yes, he gets an occasional paid holiday, which, except for winter break (5 days) and spring break (5 days), line up pretty much with a typical 52 week worker's paid holidays.  So, for those of you that get 30 days paid time off, think of a teacher's summer as being equivalent to your 4 weeks of PTO.  So, maybe he gets 10 work days off more than you.  But I assure you, he works many of those days and every Saturday and Sunday during the school year.   He works every night lesson planning.  He leaves for work before child care opens for my kids.  He is supposed to have a duty day that ends at 2:45, but at least once per week his principal invokes making him stay until 3:30 under contract for training or meetings.  He only leaves at 2:45 to take our kids to activities or appointments, during which he typically grades papers.   He never takes a vacation day off during the school year.  We can't jet away for a few days of rest because it would put his kids too far behind at school.  And for each day he isn't in the classroom, he must prepare detailed sub plans.

And for this, he gets paid roughly $50K.  Not, $70K.  So he can be sick much of the year with whatever virus you decided it was ok to send you kid to school with.

I lose my husband August-June.  I become the daytime parent because I can answer a phone during work.  Yup, teaching is such an easy life.  Bullshit.

Like the PPs, I might have said teachers have it easy, until my husband became one.  He thought it would be easier too.  It's not.  He is a slave to the system and gets to deal with parents who just don't have a clue how much red-tape and paperwork on top of actually teaching the students teachers have to do.  I have become fond of saying that the only priorities lower on the list for the school system than the teachers is the students.  I have seen the ugly underbelly of the school systems around here, and it is not pretty.

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I did my math wrong.  30 days = 6 weeks PTO.  Good thing I am not a teacher.[/quote]

But teachers aren't paid for days they don't work so it's not the same as PTO. [/quote]

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