On 7/11/03 12:02, in article 3F0EDF85.1CD93F04@po.cwru.edu, "Curt Fischer"
<crf3@po.cwru.edu> 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?

So no other job offers any paid vacation? Wouldn't it be more accurate to
ask if I do so over 46-50 weeks? Most professional jobs in Canada offer
about 4 weeks of vacation, so I'll use 48 weeks. The answer would be that I
do. Factor in teaching, prep, marking, meetings, extra-curricular,
curriculum groups, extra help for students, mandatory courses (thanks to our
lovely PLP program in Ontario), retreats, department responsibilities,
on-call coverage, lunch supervision, etc., I'm quite confident in saying
that I average over 40 hours a week.