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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teaching is also one of those jobs where...you're sitting next to someone who makes 3 figures and doesn't care because they've been around 25 years. Meanwhile, you're doing everything for your students and make 55k. That is why I quit and now make a 3 figure salary myself. This is not sustainable. Teachers need to realize they deserve better. The public doesn't care-hell the public is the problem. People continually whine about teachers while simultaneously beg for teachers. It's pathetic. Teachers know this. They just are bigger than your abuse. Teachers are heroes for reasons you've never thought of. [/quote]

The job is not sustainable if staff have to sacrifice their personal lives to do the job.[/quote]

My kids teachers work at most 180 days a year. Most of them are out all the time for various personal reasons so it's a lot less than 180 days. I don't think they're really sacrificing their personal lives. Meanwhile the rest of us are working 50 weeks a year and 60 hours a week. I wish I had teacher hours. [/quote]

Teachers on a regular basis put in more than an 8 hour a day when you consider the amount of grading and lesson planning required to do the job. 180 days is also the number of days students are in school. Teachers start the school year several weeks before students and are in school after the last day of school so they work more than 180 days. Professional days are filled with departmental meetings and training requirements so they are not days off. Sure they get eight weeks off during the summer, but that is without pay.

The compensation is not enough to attract and retain teachers. Either the school system recognizes and fixes that issue or it will continue to have vacancies that are impacting their ability to teach students.[/quote]

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