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[quote=Anonymous]...or so much more difficult.

Without a union and contract to hide behind, most professionals can't simply head home when their boss drops something urgent on their desk at 5pm. Try being a young associate at a law firm, Teacher.

But you'll say, "But lawyers make so much money! More than teachers!"

Not true.

A legal aid lawyer who serves homeless and low income clients makes the same starting salary as most teachers...yet they work 12 months a year and earned a very expensive JD. They also don't receive your Cadillac health benefits. And they don't get annual raises or step increases (because pesky congress keeps cutting funding for legal aid).

See how this works? We could do that for every profession. Bottom line: work is hard. And juggling work and parenting is even more difficult...but everyone figures out what works best for them.

And let's be clear: nobody is anti-teacher. We value and respect them. But nobody likes a whiner...and SOME teachers for whatever reason regularly post about how tough their job is compared to others, and it's aggravating because they don't work year round, they get far more holidays and breaks than other professionals, they receive much better health and retirement benefits than most professionals, and (perhaps most importantly) they chose their profession.

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