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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers do not get paid in summer in MoCo

Teachers DO work more than 8 hours a day / every day

If parking lots are empty on teacher work days, that is because the union negotiated that teachers be able to work from home on those days- not because they are not working

Having all teacher planning and professional development occur in summer would be ineffective. You can't anticipate in August the changes you need to make to your lesson plans in February... planning time, collaboration with colleagues, using data from current students to drive the next unit- teachers need time periodically to reflect and plan.

School is not daycare

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Teachers have the week between Christmas and New Years and the week of Spring break to have professional in service days in addition to summer.  There are 261 non-weekend days in a year.   Most of us get 10 federal holidays a year and do not get a week off at Christmas and a week off in March.  Accounting for the 9 federal holidays (July 4 is not in teh school year), that leaves 252 weekdays a year.  Take off 180 days for school and there are still 71 week days.  The teachers can have their professional days on those 71 week days.  That's typically 5 days at Christmas, 5 days for Spring break and 61 days spread across the summer.  They need to handle their in-service days on those days.  And if the issue is the pay, then the union needs to negotiate an appropriate payment level to compensate the teachers.  However, that is a discussion outside the scheduling of the school year.   There are 185 days between 4 Sep 2018 and 14 Jun 2019 that are not any of the federal holidays, the week between Christmas and New Year and one week for spring break.  There should not be a problem fitting in 180 days of school.  There's even some leeway if you need snow days (up to 5).  [/quote]

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