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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]lol teachers get a 3-4 day work week and summers off, nevermind parents work 5 days a week+ funding schools fully with heavy tax burdens[/quote]

And they’ll get the same salary and longer summers with a rational calendar.

Most accomplished teachers I know have summer jobs which are actually more lucrative than their teaching. Good teacher teachers will not object to more time off in the summer. The ones who make ends waitressing might.[/quote]

Teachers have 40 week days in the summer from last day of work in June to first day of teacher workdays in August.

The starting teaching salary in FCPS is $61,747. For a 190 contract that’s $324 a day. Or $46 a hour.

What summer job do your teacher friends have for 40 days in the summer that pays more than $61,747?

Or what summer job do they have that will pay them more than $13,000?

What part time job is paying teachers more than $40 a hour, for 7 hours every weekday, for just the 40 days they’re available in the summer.

Please post the job link because teachers will line up for this lucrative endeavor. [/quote]

I don't care if teachers make $40/hour or $100/hour. They work extremely hard and do a job most of us could do. Can you imagine dealing with 1000, 13-year-olds every day?

I think your math, by the way, is pretty flawed. I looked up the salary tables for FCPS, and it says teachers work 194-208 days. It is also public knowledge that teachers work more days than that, and they work 10 or more hours per day during school weeks.

Both my DH and I make significantly more than you claim teachers make per hour, yet our jobs are probably not nearly as stressful overall as a teacher’s job is. There is no way either of us would leave our jobs to go have the "cushy" job of a teacher. Absolutely not. [/quote]

I don’t think the poster’s tone was saying teachers jobs are cushy or was trying to undermine the work teachers do by any means. Pretty sure they were just trying to compare what teachers make per year (salary/daily/hourly) to show how much they’d have to make in the summer for it to be more lucrative than their teaching job. [/quote]

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