Posted on 06/28/2017 5:32:28 AM PDT by simpson96
I’m on the road, traveling out West, doing a little hiking, a little sightseeing, a lot of thinking.
I just sat down with my laptop and a cup of coffee under the blue skies of Wyoming, thinking about how much I will learn in these 4½ weeks. That’s the same chunk of the school calendar reflected on our students’ progress reports. Just over four weeks — about 23 days, almost a month.(snip)
One of the first questions people on the road ask is about your occupation. That’s always an easy ice-breaker. I reckon I don’t yet look retirement age, so they ask, “What do you do that allows you to have the time to drive from Georgia to Wyoming?” I proudly proclaim I teach.
I’m learning more and more about how the education profession is one of the most rewarding. Of course, I would love the salary of a doctor or the hours of a banker, but there’s no complaint about having the summers off, guaranteed holidays free, and weekends off.
Then I realize, we don’t really have these days off.
Scattered throughout my days on the road, I try and squish together some time to create a lesson on close reading. Somewhere in between hikes, I am planning a unit on The Invisible Man. When I can find Wi-Fi, I’m sharing ideas with a coworker on how to teach writing.
If teachers aren’t grading papers on the weekend, they are planning for the week. If teachers aren’t baking cookies on Christmas break, they’re eating them as they grade essays. If teachers aren’t lying on the beach in the summer, they are reading teacher books to make them better at their job.
So, I don’t feel guilty anymore when people make judgments about teachers having the summer off.
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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.
The Great Professions are like that
Teaching, Preaching, Healing, Motherhood
If you do not love what you are doing
You are in the wrong place
“...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.
In the modern era, teaching pays fairly well.
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.
I presume the author is talking about 23 weekdays off. For a 5 day work week that equates to 4.6 weeks - slightly more than a month unless a beginning or ending weekend is discounted.
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.
I cannot imagine why guilt even entered her head as long as she fulfills her job requirements. I too get ‘vacation pay’ (in reality my pay for the days I work is spread over my work and vacation days) and it never occurred to me to feel ‘guilty.’
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