Cy Galley wrote:
A full time job 40 hours a week for 50 weeks is only 2000 hours. At least
that is the labor department's definition. Actually anything over 32 hours a
week qualifies in most states for full time benefits.

I think I can talk about a teacher's day and amount of work having retired
after 39 years of service. Most teacher's days start before the children
arrive and cannot leave until about an hour afterwards. As a math teacher I
always had papers that I took home to grade, tests to write and work sheets
to cover what the text book didn't. Mandatory unpaid supervision of ball
games, compulsory attendance and dues for PTA, Open houses and
teacher-parent conferences on my time, plus unpaid start up days. I found
that I could not take a second job even though the salary really wasn't
enough to support my family as the little extras necessary for my job didn't
leave the time.

I also carried a union card in the carpenters union so I could work and
support my family when I was locked out of teaching during the summer. This
also provided unemployment payments if the carpenters had no work. Could not
collect as a teacher if laid off for even a reduction of staff but as a
union carpenter I was eligible to collect unemployment during the Christmas
break. Go figure!

Also there were mandatory educational courses just to maintain current wages
AT teacher expense. Getting an advanced degree to improve the salary was
done at teacher expense for tuition, books living expenses and travel costs.

All tax deductible of course...
With all the holidays etc. teacher get off it all works out so don't try
to kid us about how much time you spend at work. It has been figured out
to the penny here in Oregon how much time teachers spend at work each
year and it is much less that the average worker does. don't take this
wrong teaching is a noble and necessary profession and there are some
really good teachers out there but many are very misguided on how and
what to teach now days.

Daughter who is currently on active duty as a Lt Col with the USAF got all
that paid for plus her active duty salary when she got her Engineering
Masters from Stanford.

Did either of my kids become teachers?