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.

Grading papers was the point raised by the union clowns. I can only knock
down the arguments they raise.

>> 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.

I did not know that a sample of one could be the average.

-- 
Kevin Gowen
"It hurts when my 8-year-old daughter wants to go to the movies or even
have a meal at McDonald's and I have to say, 'No, Mommy can't afford
it.' If I had gotten a tax cut, I would spend it on the mountain of
bills that face me. Like millions of other working people, I would have
put that money right back into the economy."
- Margaret Gaffin, who does not understand that to be eligible for a
tax cut, one must pay taxes