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.