[Vigilanteman]

When I was a pup, almost every one of my teachers had summer jobs. One made cabinets, a half dozen or so farmed, some worked as office temps or ran summer type businesses, including one who repaired musical instruments out of his basement and became so successful at it that he took early retirement from teaching. A few taught remedial summer school for the kids who'd slacked off or extra credit classes for the kids who wanted to get ahead. Another hawked products at the county fair. They got paid nine months for nine months work and all needed the income from the side jobs for the other three months.

I never recall any of them whining about it and most of them had a wide variety of outside experience to add to their school resume.

One of them even got together with other members of his family and started a vitamin company which became highly successful, and from which I still buy today. All of this in one of the most obscure school districts in the nation!

[tbw2]

Summer is fast approaching. I’ve received business cards from music teachers offering summer music lessons, ads for language lessons, teachers telling me they will be at XYZ summer camp for $$$ per week, reading and other tutoring - and this is in addition to their pay and benefits.