Thanks for your reply. My wife is also a teacher of special ed K-2. She comes home every weekday afternoon tired.
You did not answer the other question I asked about teachers working during their summer breaks.
We live rural, along the Yukon. We don't even leave our place for weeks at a time, work in garden, go out on the river set nets for kings, do all the summer chores in the 24 hr sun. We couldn't ever live a fast pace life again; kinda like the going back in time feeling. Life is quite good.