Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.tu-darmstadt.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pcp656107pcs.tallah01.fl.comcast.NET!not-for-mail From: "Kevin Gowen" Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Underpaid, eh? Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 17:16:08 -0400 Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <73fde4f0.0307101621.9a9f43b@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pcp656107pcs.tallah01.fl.comcast.net (68.35.216.205) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1057958188 7652803 68.35.216.205 (16 [105084]) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:2667 Jason Cormier wrote: > On 7/10/03 20:52, in article > bel1pq$6erpl$1@ID-105084.news.uni-berlin.de, "Kevin Gowen" > 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