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.
Teachers always get a bum rap. Whenever things go bad in the economy the first thing is teachers salaries and how much they make, etc, blah blah. It really irritated me listening to Rush today bashing teachers pay. I think the people who pass information to him are not credible and thus he runs with it without checking details. I emailed him but I doubt that he’d read it. I hate it when teachers are maligned esp. about their pay. I think they deserve every penny they earn what with having to put up with all that they do.