Right ~ any job you do 9 months out of the year is your job ~ all year long!
Around here even without negotiating for it (since the state long ago removed their rights to bargain through a union) the teachers get paid monthly just like they were at work.
That way if they pick up summer school work, or painting houses, that's "above the base" and they feel it.
We also allow college graduates to take a one year program that gives them "teaching credentials". This is particularly handy in picking up the 20/25 year military retirees.
Nope, 9 months is 9 months, a year is 12. My dad was a teacher, he worked construction during the summer, my wifes friend is a teacher, she relaxes all summer. I have no sympathy for public sector union goons, none.
Last year my little company went through a very difficult period, I had to fire two people form my division, and tell the remaining six, including my self that there would be a 15-25% pay-cut for the foreseeable future. None of them called in sick, picketed or disrupted the office. Several told me they could not live on the reduced salary and my best sales person eventually quit but not one of them acted like a spoiled rotten child.
The people mobbing in Madtown are pathetic creeps.