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WRONG. Teachers' work does not end at 3:00 p.m. They bring home papers to grade, they make up tests and handouts (which take hours to do properly), they make parental phone calls, they answer student email queries, they go out and purchase classroom supplies their school lacks (on their own dollar more than likely), etc. ON THEIR OWN TIME. So they are in fact working double hours for their pay.

You denigrate our work, yet I have serious doubts whether you could present a lesson in an engaging manner, or even just control a room of 34 kids who basically don't want to be there. And you don't mention having to deal with such remarks as being asked to suck various intimate body parts of students, being cursed and then threatened to be killed with a knife, with a gun, to be jumped after school out on the street. The week before last, I had a student brandish a metal table leg over my head in a threatening manner. I've been hit in the head with thrown bottles and other heavy objects. Do doctors have these occupational hazards? Not to the extent that teachers do!

Teachers are ALSO exposed to many types of diseases, dealing with kids from countries all over the world who are not necessarily vaccinated. How many times have I received memos to exclude certain children from my classes because their medical records and vaccinations were not in order, AFTER they'd been sitting in my classroom for L-rd knows how many months.

How can teachers be viewed as "union stooges" when the union has all but abandoned them to the predation of greedy and cruel politicians with their hand in the till, eagerly turning education into a cash cow for themselves called "edu-biz"?

Your post is so typical of people who have not stood in a classroom and walked in the moccasins of an educator.