Same too of office staff. I don’t know where their pay is but I’d bet it would be up there as well. It’s always the teachers who get the brunt of public outrage at their salaries and how they’re paid (six hour days, ten months of work) - it’s always an eye opener when people find out the amount of time they put in without pay (evenings, etc) and that they don’t get a years pay for ten months work - a fallacy that’s been promoted over the years.
Having a dad who was a teacher and a bro. who currently teaches and a child who teaches to. While they may work more ‘hrs’ then said (conferences and correcting homework/tests) the teachers who work the most hrs tend to be those just out of college. Once they’ve established their plans they really don’t vary a whole lot from year to year. Getting new texts does require going through them and implementing the plan with the new text.
And of course beginning teachers who end up putting in more time doing lesson plans and such, just because they are just starting out are lower paid then those with the years in and who have established plans that just need tweaking.
I really don’t recall my dad doing much ‘school’ business during the summer except when he had to take a class or such. I’m sure he did some but it wasn’t like he sat around every day working on lesson plans and whatever everyday during the summer, he did spend allot of time coaching tho.