I wouldn’t feel guilty either, but you couldn’t pay me enough money to be a teacher.
My Sunday afternoon is sitting in front of a PC with the online gradebook with Irish Music from WFUV streaming over the Internet and I check and check papers.
Hey honey, try doing a turn in IT. You can expect to work nights, weekends, AND holidays. You can also expect to be paged, frequently, in the middle of the night, on weekends, on holidays, on your vacation... And all the while, you will get far less benefits than you get in teaching, no pension, no raises, and most definitely will never have the opportunity to take 4 1/2 weeks off.
Of course you don’t feel guilty, you have served your NEA and DNC masters well, you and your ‘profession’ have destroyed the Republic.
“...these 4½ weeks...about 23 days, almost a month.”
Maybe she should try a “teacher book” on math.
Just over four weeks — about 23 days,
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probably a public school Math teacher...
Teaching should be a young unmarried girls' job to learn all about every kind of kid and psychology imaginable, THEN, when the time comes, she knows exactly how to rear proper and decent citizen children.
When teaching became a career, we lost the best training program for motherhood.
But does this clown feel guilty that basically every teachers’ unions...local,state and national....support the filthiest curriculums (cirricula?) for students and support the filthiest candidates...local,state and national...for public office?
The 9 Supremes don’t feel guilty, why should you? I think your job is much harder. Enjoy your time off.
I never feel guilty about that. Summer is the time I do all the chores that were sidelined during the school year due to lack of time.
We are all equal, it’s just that gummit workers are more equal than most.
Given the quality of Washington State's public 'education' system, I really don't mind all the breaks.
Teachers aren't as dangerous to society when they aren't teaching.
IMO, this should have had a barf alert.
My daughter’s BF is starting his first year teaching up in Fairfax Va. The cost of housing is enormous but they make good money.
Nobody is asking her to feel guilty, are they?
The problem many teachers have is understanding that the things that are often complained about - work at night, work on the weekends, and whatever else it takes to get the job done is part and parcel of being a professional.
Some teachers act like technicians - rigidly follow the curriculum, expect little of students that may infringe upon their “me time”.
Others, probably most, just do what it takes like the professionals they are.
The defensiveness comes in when they are unable, because of heavy unionization, to drive the lazy and shiftless among them out of the profession - that sullies the professionals.
Unionization is another aspect. No professional should willingly be part of a union (my opinion). The constantly expressed “struggle against ‘the man’” is tiresome when it comes from a so-called professional.
The reflexive (union-driven) complaint about measuring performance of kids (and indirectly the performance of the teacher) to help accountability is another aspect that drives defensiveness.
Take the time off. Be a professional. Quit whining - or just quit and do something else.
Every job has something to complain about.
Firefighters have to run into burning buildings.
Police officers get shot at.
Doctors struggle with life and death.
Struggling actors get rejected on a daily basis.
Teachers have their struggles too — but they seem to be more eager to play the Victim Card than any other profession.
She shouldn’t feel guilty about her summer time off. She also shouldn’t feel guilty for the 5-6 times during the school year when she gets a 5 day weekend, example: Wednesday night parent/teacher conferences with Thursday & Friday teacher “in-service” days immediately proceeding a Monday school holiday like MLK day or President’s Day. The “in-service” typically means work from home, and the parking lot is empty except for the janitors.
In general, teachers aren’t over-worked. Nor are they over-paid.
Wonder how much it costs to “travel out west” for 23 days?
He probably continually bellyaches about his low pay. Wah.
boo-hoo.