re: Is there a profession better at patting themselves on the back than teachers?

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How much should they make for 3/4 a year of work?

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It's really 2/3 of a year when you factor in the holidays and their 2 weeks personal leave on top of the 10 weeks of off time for summer.

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If your average teacher makes 45k a year with some experience, they really would make roughly 65k if they actually worked like the rest of us. Respectable for an easily obtainable 4 year degree.

I could endure most any job if I got of at 3:00 every day and got 4 months' vacation every year.

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They have one of the most critical jobs, one that is not easy, and it doesn't pay all that well, generally speaking. I really have no issue with teachers patting themselves on the back. What they do is commendable.

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Yeah, I have a friend who is a teacher and I give him shite sometimes about being off all summer and all holidays.

But the truth is I could never do that job. He cares about his students and he hates to see that his work gets erased every night when his students go home to unstable houses where they may or may not get food. He tries his best, but he is up against it, not even mentioning trying to teach kids virtually.

I remember how much of an a-hole I was to teachers and I just feel bad for them and about myself. That is a difficult job.

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their 3 month vacation.

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No one is off 3 months. Not even close.

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My Facebook (trashy, I know) feed is currently full of teachers congratulating themselves on completing a very difficult year ahead of their 3 month vacation.

I’m not denying they had a difficult year, most professionals did to be honest, but teachers love the opportunity to remind us how hard their jobs are and to congratulate themselves.

Obviously this is a very anecdotal observation, but in my book teachers have surpassed nurses for top of the leaderboard in this category. Pretty big upset.

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Hey, Jackass, why don't you try being a teacher, having to deal with little snots like your kid all day, and then you come back and take another look at your statement.

I know plenty of teachers who have been punched, kicked, scratched, bitten, vomited on, spit on by little miscreants and it's NEVER little Johnny's fault. The incidents are brought to the parents who claim that it's the teacher's fault that their kid punched the teacher. It's the teacher's fault that their dog ate their kid's homework. THEN the parents, these wonderful enablers (oh my God, not my kid!!!!) complain to the principle's who are so afraid of being sued by these wonderful pillars of society that they throw each and every teacher under the bus.

You think teachers pat themselves on the back too much? For what they do and have to put up with while doing, it's a miracle that it actually gets done and they don't pat themselves on the back enough.

And another thing; How much of your own money do you throw at your job without the hopes of ever being reimbursed fully or even a quarter of full? Huh? Yeah, I thought so. Get out, read a book, and get a clue.

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No one is off 3 months. Not even close

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ok Mr Specificity. 83.3333% of 3 months is pretty close to 3 months. They are off 10 weeks. Source? My wife is a teacher

Divers

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While I do appreciate the bullshite teachers have to put up with, they only work 9 months out of the year. How much should they make for 3/4 a year of work?

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I remember the thread where the teachers were bitching about 10 hour work days and needing to do continuing education; then acted like no other profession has long hours and continuing education. Even if you add the CE, I believe it came out to less than 2,000 hours a week (allegedly, they would spend time on weekends/holidays working through lesson plans).

Naturally, they were destroyed by all of the white collar posters about how 50 hour weeks is the low end, and we have to do this 50+ weeks a year. And, when we're on vacation, we still have to keep up with emails and will occasionally have to jump on conference calls.

3 months vacation and the job is easy? All the folks here are lined up to do the job, right? Easy Street!

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But the truth is I could never do that job. He cares about his students and he hates to see that his work gets erased every night when his students go home to unstable houses where they may or may not get food. He tries his best, but he is up against it, not even mentioning trying to teach kids virtually.

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Boo fricking hoo. You couldn’t do my job. I couldn’t do your job. That’s how it works.