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In the discussion thread: I get so tired of people gritching that "teachers get all summer off" We get paid for 186 days [View all]

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Thu Mar 15, 2012, 07:56 PM

demtenjeep (21,763 posts)

46. The taxpayers don't have to pay me for my summers, I just wish they'd pay me for what I do.

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67 replies	Author	Time	Post
I get so tired of people gritching that "teachers get all summer off" We get paid for 186 days [View all]	demtenjeep	Mar 2012	OP
You have my total admiration and support. Teachers by and large do a remarkable job and certainly	teddy51	Mar 2012	#1
K/R They also don't know that we can't deduct all the supplies we buy, or realize...	NYC_SKP	Mar 2012	#2
I tend to do a lot of hands on projects for end of unit wrap ups	demtenjeep	Mar 2012	#32
A lot of teachers also bring fruit and snacks and food, secretively...	NYC_SKP	Mar 2012	#33
yea, I always have a stash of something to snack on	demtenjeep	Mar 2012	#34
Note to public: Teachers d/not get paid tax dollars f/the periods of time school is not in session.	MichiganVote	Mar 2012	#3
Exactly, thank you!	NYC_SKP	Mar 2012	#6
My husband was a teacher for 32 years. If they ever paid him for his	michaz	Mar 2012	#4
My wife is a teacher and what I have found to shut them up is this,	gopiscrap	Mar 2012	#5
Many don't even get there summers off (I know this is a matter of choice) but many go back to school	teddy51	Mar 2012	#7
My wife has taken 6 summers off in 31 years of teaching	gopiscrap	Mar 2012	#39
teachers perform one of the if not THE	dana_b	Mar 2012	#8
Yes, when you average it out, it's less than other jobs. And teachers...	freshwest	Mar 2012	#9
These people must not have made it past 3rd grade	Mopar151	Mar 2012	#10
Except that teachers don't even get paid for there 2000 hours per year. They don't get	teddy51	Mar 2012	#12
The argument I have heard to that one is...	liberal N proud	Mar 2012	#11
Probably many actually do get an extra job in the summer to augment there income's. n/t	teddy51	Mar 2012	#13
Don't listen to the ignorance. I know my brother use to be a teacher until he retired.	southernyankeebelle	Mar 2012	#14
Sorry you have to put up that stuff	abelenkpe	Mar 2012	#15
You might like this.	progressoid	Mar 2012	#16
If teachers were paid to babysit, they'd be living large	Kennah	Mar 2012	#17
this one?	demtenjeep	Mar 2012	#23
It's simple. You don't want teachers to have summers off,	jerseyjack	Mar 2012	#18
Sorry	MJJP21	Mar 2012	#19
what a load of bullshit	demtenjeep	Mar 2012	#20
What a bunch of crap.	kcass1954	Mar 2012	#25
Um... no.	Hissyspit	Mar 2012	#26
That's not how it is these days.	knitter4democracy	Mar 2012	#35
Since teaching is such a soft touch,	sulphurdunn	Mar 2012	#40
There is no tenure for teachers in Texas.	mbperrin	Mar 2012	#55
What everybody above me said, plus...	Goblinmonger	Mar 2012	#57
I regard teachers highly. Very. But face it: you get the summer off, paid.	Honeycombe8	Mar 2012	#21
again, we get paid for 186 days	demtenjeep	Mar 2012	#22
UFT.org	emilyg	Mar 2012	#29
That's just how they divide up the checks. Depends on the way you look at it:	Honeycombe8	Mar 2012	#48
A whole bucket of money?	Goblinmonger	Mar 2012	#58
No teacher gets summer off, paid.	Starry Messenger	Mar 2012	#24
From UFT.org	emilyg	Mar 2012	#28
That's having your checks pro-rated.	Starry Messenger	Mar 2012	#30
This message was self-deleted by its author	sulphurdunn	Mar 2012	#43
Sure it is. Summer is VACATION. Are teachers fired every year?	Honeycombe8	Mar 2012	#49
That is very silly. Vacation time for a worker is paid time off.	Starry Messenger	Mar 2012	#53
You need to talk to an actual teacher, or a seasonal worker in a different field.	NYC_SKP	Mar 2012	#27
exactly right. I get paid 12 months for 186 days.	demtenjeep	Mar 2012	#31
That's like saying I'm not paid for my 4 weeks' vacation.	Honeycombe8	Mar 2012	#50
Do you have to go to school during your 4 weeks' vacation?	proud2BlibKansan	Mar 2012	#56
so you actually DO get paid for not working yet you criticize teachers who actually DON'T....	mike_c	Mar 2012	#66
If I don't work, I don't get paid.	knitter4democracy	Mar 2012	#36
no, teachers get summer off UNPAID....	mike_c	Mar 2012	#41
So you get fired every year and have to re-apply, so that you're unemployed every summer?	Honeycombe8	Mar 2012	#51
Actually, in many areas teachers ARE unemployed during the summer.	FBaggins	Mar 2012	#54
I don't know why you find this so hard to understand....	mike_c	Mar 2012	#60
Every time I've been a salaried teacher, yes.	knitter4democracy	Mar 2012	#67
How many jobs require unpaid HOMEWORK almost every night ?	eppur_se_muova	Mar 2012	#37
For the first 12 years of my career, I had to get summer jobs.	Reader Rabbit	Mar 2012	#38
My wife was a teacher	Canuckistanian	Mar 2012	#42
Ivan's Goat	sulphurdunn	Mar 2012	#44
182 days at 6 paid hours per day for me.	montanto	Mar 2012	#45
The taxpayers don't have to pay me for my summers, I just wish they'd pay me for what I do.	demtenjeep	Mar 2012	#46
Absolutely!	montanto	Mar 2012	#61
And I'd settle for a few supplies	proud2BlibKansan	Mar 2012	#62
Study: Teachers Work the Same Number of Hours as Average U.S. Worker	NYC_SKP	Mar 2012	#47
Well, aren't those hours as reported by teachers for work done away from school?	Honeycombe8	Mar 2012	#52
How much you get paid for that OT?	Goblinmonger	Mar 2012	#59
I sign in each morning at 6:45, and I sign out at 3:15 each afternoon.	mbperrin	Mar 2012	#63
sadly, some are not going to learn	demtenjeep	Mar 2012	#64
"Thank you for your service, demtenjeep."	NYC_SKP	Mar 2012	#65

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