Originally posted by: BamBam215
anyone who keeps using that 3 months summer vacation don't know half of what they are talking about. in other professions, you work from 8-5pm but when you get home, you don't have to worry about jacksh!t. when you're a teacher, you get off at 3pm and still work your ass off at night making lesson plans and contacting parents. anyone who says you shouldn't have to take your work home or you're being inefficient if you have to take your work home don't know jacksquat about teaching.
on top of that, the liability is humongous. you are responsible for the welfare of 20-30 kids 6 hrs a day. in other professions, you just need to watch your own ass.
Obviously, you don't know half of what you're talking about. Try working in the real world for a few years and get back to us.
You're telling us that, EVERY SINGLE NIGHT, a teacher has to "work their ass off" "making lesson plans" and "contacting parents"?
What a steaming load of horse crap. You think that teachers don't recycle lesson plans from year to year? Of course they do. If you are a teacher that has to spend that much time at home working, then of course you are grossly inefficient. There is no other way to put it.
But in reality, there really aren't any teachers that have to work every night doing those types of things.
Sure, around exam time, or mid-terms, they might have to take some tests home to grade, but this is not an everyday thing. There are plenty of days that most teachers walk out the door less than 30 minutes after the students do, and any teacher who says this isn't true is lying.
Go to any school every day for a week and walk around it 30 minutes after the students leave....and tell me how many teachers you can find. Not many.
And what's this "contacting parents" crap? How many teachers do that, and why would they need to do it on a regular basis? Maybe a special ed teacher, or a teacher for troublemakers would, but your regular, run-of-the-mill teacher certainly doesn't do this.
And even if you were right, which you aren't, you STILL only do it 185 days a year, so you still don't work as many hours as someone with a regular job.