On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 01:02:13 +0900, Curt Fischer <crf3@po.cwru.edu>
used up some bandwidth to say: 

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>Jason Cormier wrote:
>> 
>> On 7/10/03 20:52, in article bel1pq$6erpl$1@ID-105084.news.uni-berlin.de,
>> "Kevin Gowen" <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > I hasten to add that grading papers can be done during work hours.
>> 
>> A teacher's job is not only teaching classes and grading papers. There are
>> other things that must also be done during work hours, or outside of them.
>> 
>> > Teachers
>> > are not teaching in the classroom every minute they are in the school
>> > building. Once this fact is considered, the hourly wage of a teacher jumps
>> > up even further. I would be very surprised to learn that the average
>> > teacher's classroom time, grading of papers, lesson planning et cetera add
>> > up to over 40 hours a week.
>> 
>> Then I guess that I surprise you.
>
>Do you average 40 hrs/week over a 52 week period?

I don't know about him, but I do. Stating that only time spent in
front of a student should count as 'work' is as dumb as saying
firefighters are only working when they are actually fighting fires.