‘Except of course they don’t really have that time for leisure.’
no, no, of course not...smh...
There’s lots of continuing education requirements, and other work related stuff they have to do in those months “off” everyone is so jealous of.
ah yes...every single summer they are forced to take three months worth of continuing ed and other ‘related stuff’; is that what you’re stipulating...? cause you’re wrong if you are...
What’s difficult to understand is why people get so upset when teachers are treated like humanbeings.
think it might have anything to do with hamstringing the taxpayers with increased property assessments, while they walk off their jobs and suffer absolutely no loss of income due to their truncated work year...do other professionals get to do that...?
My stipulation is that anybody whining about teachers getting “time off” is just whining for the sake of whining. Intel employees get a sabbatical every few years that’s over and above their normal vacation, add a paternity leave in there and they can easily get a whole year’s pay on 8 months of work. Have you complained about them lately? Didn’t think so.
Problem is those increased property taxes often don’t go to the schools. Various layers of our government have grown very good at saying revenue increases are for the schools while not sending any of that money to the schools. That’s one of the reasons for the walkout in AZ, they slashed the budget back in 2008 because of the recession, and never brought it back, school budgets have remained the same for 10 years, while having the people approve various revenue increasing propositions that were supposedly going to go to the schools.