[Amelia]

You forgot to mention the teachers' remarkably high rates of absence, which can average 15 days of the measley 185 annual working days.

A major reason for that is the large number of women of childbearing age in the profession. A lot of maternity leave in that demographic, not to mention staying home with sick children.

[onja]

Actually, 9 out of 10 teachers that taught me in public school were old and had had children in their teens, 20s, or older. Maybe my districts were just old :)

And my teachers very rarely missed days. 2-3 days a year except for the Jewish ones(missed 3 or so holidays).