Teachers have it so easy

[caramida]

Stealthcomic has a good calculation of the after-hours time requirements inherent in teaching.

http://stealthcomic.livejournal.com/174796.html

I could do the math on what the overtime pay would be for all those extra hours that we're expected to put in, but I won't waste the time. Suffice to say that even those rare teachers that are making 100k a year* have earned their due, and perhaps more.

*chuckles and shakes head at the very idea.

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[dangerpudding.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've never questioned that one. Teachers work their butts off. My sister is a new (second-third year) art teacher, she got to develop 8 separate curricula over the last year and a half, one for each grade level.

Kinda like my department being one of the better paid (and less higher-degree-holding) in the university - we're also one of the only always on call and who work in the office year round, including when the university is closed.

Less obvious things still exist.