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When I convert 10 months into weeks, I get at least 40 weeks.

Also, the teacher's salary is the teacher's salary -- unless the teacher supplements their income with a second job during winter, spring, and summer vacations. Yes, they get time off during winter, spring, and summer vacations. But time off doesn't pay the bills. The question isn't whether teachers get compensated what they deserve to get compensated, because few people gets compensated what they deserve to get compensated; that's not how compensation works. (If it were how compensation works, CEOs and lobbyists would be a whole lot less rich.) The question is whether the compensation is high enough to attract and retain highly-qualified people. What do you think is the answer to that question? [/quote]

Hope you are not a math teacher.  Please count the days on your contract.  You do know that most people do not get Christmas vacation, all federal holidays, and a Spring break?
 
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I'm not an anything teacher. I looked at the MCPS contract. As far as I can tell, teachers are classified as 10-month employees in MCPS. But maybe I misunderstood that. (I did not have to look at the MCPS contract to know that there is school on Columbus Day and Veterans Day, both of which are federal holidays.)

Now if you want to, you can get into an argument about how many hours a year teachers actually work, vs. how many hours a year other people actually work. But it's still irrelevant, since the question (which you have not answered) remains: is teacher compensation is high enough to attract and retain highly-qualified people?[/quote]

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