Its 40 weeks. We work 40 weeks including weeks of training and professional development. We take that salary for 40 weeks, and we can opt to only be paid during those 40 weeks, or spread it out over all 12 months so we don't have to go without a paycheck over the summer.
Curriculum is CONSTANTLY changing. I spend a week in the summer learning the new curriculum and multiple additional hours during each week planning, preparing, and then re-tooling the lessons (especially when they don't work/are ineffective). Most of these lessons we have to create ourselves from our teacher's manuals. We don't just get to "reuse everything".
This isn't even touching on the massive amount of grading we end up having to do at home at night. Tests, homework, writing...we have to grade it all. 30 of them a pop in elementary school.
We also have to deal with massive behavior problems as well. Kids who will literally punch us out. Parents who 100% side with their kids even when the kid is wrong. Oh, but the second another kid does something to their kid? We have to bring the wrath of God on them or they will "make sure you never teach again".
Unions protect us from losing our jobs unfairly. Here are some times when myself or a coworker had to go to the union to protect our jobs:
a parent claimed we were "targeting" their child unfairly for discipline (aka "RACISM")
we posted a pro-Trump meme on our private Facebook page
we disagreed with our district Equity specialist on whether we should allow a 4th grader to refer to their teacher as a "fucking retard"
we taught students that there were 2 genders, and a parent disagreed
at a staff barbecue, while drinking, we mentioned that we are disappointed in our Common Core curriculum
Also, these stories you hear about "shitty teachers getting to keep their jobs" just aren't true anymore. If a principal can prove you are ineffective these days, they can get you fired. We are on 3 year evaluations...so its not hard for them to create "proof" if they want to. Like you, we have to decide whether to keep our heads down and protect our jobs, or speak up and risk them.
We aren't asking for your pity. Hell, I disagree with what the unions are pushing right now. Its ludicrous. But I'm not gonna stand by while you call me a "lazy bastard".
By the way, you fucking idiot, I do work over the summer. A lot of teachers do.
And I have personally reached out to my state teachers' union and told them they are over-reaching and that we need to be back in the classroom and back to work.
Maybe you can stop generalizing all teachers for a fucking minute and remember that conservative, Trump-loving teachers are on your side. I can't fight bullshit from the left and deal with assholes on the right at the same time.
Its 40 weeks. We work 40 weeks including weeks of training and professional development. We take that salary for 40 weeks, and we can opt to only be paid during those 40 weeks, or spread it out over all 12 months so we don't have to go without a paycheck over the summer.
Curriculum is CONSTANTLY changing. I spend a week in the summer learning the new curriculum and multiple additional hours during each week planning, preparing, and then re-tooling the lessons (especially when they don't work/are ineffective). Most of these lessons we have to create ourselves from our teacher's manuals. We don't just get to "reuse everything".
This isn't even touching on the massive amount of grading we end up having to do at home at night. Tests, homework, writing...we have to grade it all. 30 of them a pop in elementary school.
We also have to deal with massive behavior problems as well. Kids who will literally punch us out. Parents who 100% side with their kids even when the kid is wrong. Oh, but the second another kid does something to their kid? We have to bring the wrath of God on them or they will "make sure you never teach again".
Unions protect us from losing our jobs unfairly. Here are some times when myself or a coworker had to go to the union to protect our jobs:
Also, these stories you hear about "shitty teachers getting to keep their jobs" just aren't true anymore. If a principal can prove you are ineffective these days, they can get you fired. We are on 3 year evaluations...so its not hard for them to create "proof" if they want to. Like you, we have to decide whether to keep our heads down and protect our jobs, or speak up and risk them.
We aren't asking for your pity. Hell, I disagree with what the unions are pushing right now. Its ludicrous. But I'm not gonna stand by while you call me a "lazy bastard".
You fucking cunt.
Teacher pede here. My district is doing a hybrid model. I need to get back full time so that I can push back against the leftist indoctrination
By the way, you fucking idiot, I do work over the summer. A lot of teachers do.
And I have personally reached out to my state teachers' union and told them they are over-reaching and that we need to be back in the classroom and back to work.
Maybe you can stop generalizing all teachers for a fucking minute and remember that conservative, Trump-loving teachers are on your side. I can't fight bullshit from the left and deal with assholes on the right at the same time.
The other guy is me.
And yeah, you should qualify your statements if you're talking about a certain type of people in a profession.
You don't see me shitting all over the entirety of construction workers or Auto Mechanics when I have a problem with a small group of them.
I agree that teachers who are refusing to work are whining. I don't agree that all teachers are "lazy bastards".
Nah see, you claimed that we are "lazy bastards" that "have it so easy".
Now you claim we "knew what we were getting into". So you admit that we have a lot of issues that teachers face. You admit that we do plenty of work.
So which is it? Are we lazy bastards or do we actually have a job with its own challenges LIKE EVERYONE ELSE?
We aren't asking for sympathy or to be treated like a some grand special profession that's better than anyone else. No teacher thinks that.
We are asking to be treated like a fucking human being. Calling us lazy bastards was crossing a line.
Sorry ive seen to many nightmare teachers skate until retirement. I dont buy that this is common.