On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 16:40:43 GMT, mr_mac_daddy45@SPAMSUCKShotmail.com
(Greg Macdonald) belched the alphabet and kept on going with:

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

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