Excellent response! Yes, professionals put in extra hours, even if it is to keep caught up. I do think that some teachers hurt themselves by insisting that they get paid for all this. Professionals just do that. I also think that teachers get paid too much in some areas (relative to what other similary paid professionals get paid) and not enough in others.
This is the second thread in several days where people who do not know what they are talking about but think they do just criticize teachers. It drives me crazy. I'm the first to criticize them when I see issues that they need called on. But there has just been this oft-spoken belief that teachers only work the hours they are in front of a classroom and nothing could be further from the truth for most teachers.
Perhaps I am misunderstanding you ... but you seem to say that you are uniquely free to criticize teachers when you think they deserve it, but everyone else is clueless and shouldn't voice an opinion?
"I do think that some teachers hurt themselves by insisting that they get paid for all this"
Getting paid for all those extra hours--that'll be the day. :P
It's something to me that is part of the job.