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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And, once again, teachers work very, very hard--for less than 39 weeks/year.[/quote]

When I convert 10 months into weeks, I get at least 40 weeks.

Also, the teacher's salary is the teacher's salary -- unless the teacher supplements their income with a second job during winter, spring, and summer vacations. Yes, they get time off during winter, spring, and summer vacations. But time off doesn't pay the bills. The question isn't whether teachers get compensated what they deserve to get compensated, because few people gets compensated what they deserve to get compensated; that's not how compensation works. (If it were how compensation works, CEOs and lobbyists would be a whole lot less rich.) The question is whether the compensation is high enough to attract and retain highly-qualified people. What do you think is the answer to that question?[/quote]

There are 180 days in the school year.  That is 36 5-day weeks.  If you assume that teachers work an extra 20 non-instruction days per year at the school, (which seems high, but may be right) you are at 200 days.  If they're working 10-hour days (again, probably a stretch), that's 2000 hours per year.  That's a decent clip, especially when there are chunks of time (summer, breaks) when nothing gets done.  I know that I work a lot more than that - but I also make 3 times as much as a 20-year teacher.  (And I certainly don't work three times as many hours.)

And lay off lobbyists.  [/quote]

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