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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So this may be an unpopular opinion and I have many family members who are teachers and agree with me so this is in no way meant to not show support for teachers, but it is a reality.

Teacher contracts are based on a 195-day contract which is 39 weeks. This is 75% of a full year.

Conversely, I am a small govt worker and my contract is based off a 52 week calendar.  With more than 25 years of experience, I make about 2/3 of what a teacher with the same level of experience/education makes and receive about 1/2 of the market rate adjustment raises that teachers in FCPS receive each year.

So as a fellow government employee working in the same jurisdiction, I work more weeks, more hours (my job also requires me to work some nights and weekends) and get paid less and receive lower raises than teachers.

Teaching has become a very thankless job and many people like myself acknowledge the challenges and frustrations of being a teacher, but let's stop pretending that teachers are on an island when it comes to being underpaid and underappreciated.[/quote]

While teachers are only in the building 195 days, they are working more than that. I would say with all the overtime teachers have grading, planning, going to professional development and attending school events it actually is about the same.

This area as a whole is too expensive for most people unless you have two working families. So I agree that many professionals are being priced out of this area but please know teachers definitely work more than 195 days. [/quote]

I contributed some numbers up thread that nobody commented on.

I work about 65 hours a week, putting in 2,600 hours(ish) in 10 months.

195 days of work without overtime amounts to 1,560 hours.

That difference of 1,040 hours is actually 26 full 40-hour weeks of overtime I’m cramming into my 10 months.

Summer is my one break all year, when I recharge before another 10-month marathon begins. [/quote]

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