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maybe there are teachers that actually work from home with students papers.... You must be talking to the wrong kind of teachers. I grade every paper that I assign the students. To be honest it isn't too bad, except when I give exams and grade laboratory reports.

but mostly, they live charmed lives....don't get up as early as most people to go to work....have frequent breaks plus a nice lunch, get to finish work in 6 hrs...School begins at 8:30 in our school. I am at school by 7:30. My frequent break is 1st period prep which is used to attend various meetings regarding my students. LOL, my nice lunch consists of a 25 minute lunch period. After the students are dismissed at 3:20, I remain after school to run off papers for the next day. I usually leave school around 5:00, tack on about an hour to 3 hours to grade papers depending on what needs to be graded.

they don't have to work any weekends...any holidays....and summers and spring break and all those lovely three and four day holiday weekends....let's not forget they also can take other Personal days just in case their time off which is extensive, is not enough.... During the school year I use a big part of my weekend making lesson plans for the following week. We do get 3 personal days a year that I use for personal business. As to sick days I rarely use them. This coming year I will have accumulated 156 sick days. Ya never know when I first started to teach I had 85 days accumulated when I had to have back surgery causing me to use them all.

remember also that they get these added "free" days designed specifically so they can work on all those tough issues like how to set up recess time with the kids or how to cram more stuff into even fewer days so they can go golfing or whatever they do....Personally I would rather remain in the classroom and teach my students. Unfortunately NJ law requires that we accumulate 100 hours of continued education. I try to avoid missing school days by taking summer courses. I hate taking them because we are stuck listening to a bunch of nitwits who haven't taught in a classroom for years.

education students have the easiest course load available..

I took the classes other students tried mightily to avoid. My degree is in Anthropology and Archaeology. My certification is in secondary school (history) because of the strong background in science I also got a certification in Science.