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.
‘My stipulation is that anybody whining about teachers getting “time off” is just whining for the sake of whining’
well, no, it’s just noticing that every single work year teachers do in fact get months off from the job they were contracted to do; teach children...
‘Have you complained about them lately?’
I would complain long and loud if monies were extorted from me to fund their downtime...
‘Problem is those increased property taxes often don’t go to the schools.’
and yet those same ever increasing property taxes still come out of my pocket, regardless of their ultimate resting place...and I don’t get to walk off my ‘job’ of paying them in order to coerce lawmakers to make me whole...