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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers have the same frustration as so many in the middle class. Wage stagnation, demands for more productivity, pensions being attacked, increasing health insurance costs. I'm in that rut but I only get three weeks of vacation a year, not 12-15. [/quote]

It's not vacation.  It's an unpaid furlough.  Teachers have a contract that states how many days per year that they are required to work.[/quote]
This must be such a shock and surprise to teachers. If only they had known this before they went to college for teaching![/quote]

I'm pointing out that the "vacation" days are unpaid.   :roll:   Some people think that teachers get lots of paid vacation time.[/quote]

NP here and unless I'm misunderstanding something this seems like a meaningless distinction.  You have an annual salary that is paid over the course of the school year and, apparently, not paid during the summer.  Why does that matter?  The salary is still the salary and you're getting some portion of the summer off.[/quote]

It's not a meaningless distinction.  It's the same thing as if you took a half time job, where you were supposed to work 8 - 12 every day, with a salary that matched the position's hours, and other people complained that you worked full time and got paid vacation time every afternoon.   Wouldn't you say "actually I'm not full time?  I'm not contracted for those hours?"   I work 195 days.  My salary covers 195 days worth of pay.  On other days I am not paid.  A typical professional employee like the one above who gets 3 weeks of vacation, and 10 federal holidays is paid for 236 - 237 days.[/quote]

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