That's Really Super, Supergirl: Coddled Teachers: 90 paid sick days per year!
Let’s see, you work three-quarters time, get a 3 month paid vacation every year, not to mention holidays off and you do get vacation time. And for good measure, how does 90 paid sick days a year grab you?
When I say we don’t need to spend any more on education, ya think maybe I’m on to something? When I say reform education, is the picture getting a little less fuzzy for you?
These teachers appear to be nothing more than leech’s that have attached themselves to the public trough and are draining it dry. Enough is enough. Even the French are envious.
A public sector “job.” 3 months worth of sick time, three months off in the summer, full vacation and holidays off means they could only work about 5 months or less a year if they so chose, and they have the audacity to complain? Does anybody else get those kind of perks? Anybody who has a real job (private sector, non-union) get anything like that? Even big business CEO’s don’t get that. Unbelievable.
Teachers would no longer receive 90 sick days per year. Instead, they would receive 10 sick days per year that could accumulate up to 90 days. Unused days would not be paid back.
And under Gov. Walker’s plan they can still accrue up to 90 sick days? Screw that. If it were up to me, 10 days, take it or leave it.
Like I said. To those teachers that are whining about Gov. Walker’s plan, if you don’t like it, find another job. That’s how freedom works. Charlie Sykes has the full story.
- This is pertinent right about now.
- If you look at Oshkosh school district’s website, you can see the actual information about sick leave. The 90-day figure is essentially short-term disability and is only allowed to be used in the case of serious illnesses of the employee or the employee’s immediately family. Employees have to qualify for it. (Note: Many people’s employers, my own (private industry) included, offer some sort of short-term disability insurance.) Regular sick leave for Oshkosh school district employees accrues at 10 days per year. The maximum number of days which can be accrued is 90 days for less than 20 years of service, 120 for over 20 years. In order to accrue this, though, a person would actually have to go 9-12 years without taking a sick day. In which case, I think they’ve earned their time off. (Note: Many private industry employers offer paid leaves of absence when an employee reaches a certain mile marker in their career. Rewarding long-term employees with periods of paid time off isn’t that strange.) Chances are, when you see an outrageous claim made somewhere, if you can’t find it corroborated anywhere else, it probably is either inaccurate or a flat out lie. Do you research.
- All teachers work outside of standard school hours. Otherwise, they would be unable to create lesson plans, grade papers, or fill out the mountains of required paperwork that all school teachers are obliged to complete. Most teachers work well over 40 hours per week. Just because they only have your little darlings from 8-3 doesn’t mean that their day ends when the kids are out of the classroom. Also, most teachers work on a 9-month contract. The $46K they are paid for 9 months of work is stretched out over 12 months as a courtesy to teachers and their families. They do not receive 3 months of pay for free. I can understand how a person who does not personally know any educators—or who has not bothered to question their assumptions about educators—wouldn’t know this. As with most of the things teachers do, the public is generally ignorant. People tend to assume that children would learn reading, writing, math, history, and science all on their own, as if by magic, or that if they themselves were put in charge of educating 20+ human beings on a daily basis, it would be a breeze! These people are almost universally wrong…as arrogant, ignorant humans so often tend to be.
- How anyone can compare the benefits of a school teacher, who averages $46K/year with that of CEOs, the average salary for whom (big business or otherwise) is over $700K, and argue that teachers are the ones coming out on top either can’t do math or has an agenda to peddle. Period.
Nothing pisses me off more than assholes on the internet running their mouths on subjects that they know absolutely nothing about.
“These teachers appear to be nothing more than leech’s that have attached themselves to the public trough and are draining it dry.” TOO TRUE that’s why everyone homeschools their children
wait a minute
IMAGINE MY RAGE FLOW. I sort of want to write everything in CAPS-LOCK!RAGE right now but I won’t because I’m a classy person, of course /sarcasm.
Accurate: everything robot-heart-politics wrote and more. BS like this (OP’s) is what fuels my love and appreciation for teachers (not to say that all of them are superheros in their own right, like most -if not all- of the teachers I’ve had are, but everything has its exceptions.).
A public sector “job.” 3 months worth of sick time, three months off in the summer, full vacation and holidays off means they could only work about 5 months or less a year if they so chose, and they have the audacity to complain? Does anybody else get those kind of perks? Anybody who has a real job (private sector, non-union) get anything like that?
IMAGINE MY RAGE FLOW AGAIN. Is this person serious or is this supposed to be satirical? I’m honestly perplexed that some people believe this and/or think this way.
I want to rant more but it’ll get off topic, so summary = TEACHERS APPRECIATION LIFE. FY OP.
ikr i dont even
my parents used to tell me i should become a teacher because of all the perks and time off
like… what? are you being serious right now?
Ahahahaha, my parents are teachers, and I was like, no, I’m not going to do that. I’m not going to work that hard for that little. My mom and dad love teaching, though, so I guess the reward isn’t all material.
“These teachers appear to be nothing more than leech’s that have attached themselves to the public trough and are draining it dry. “
Woah.
Woah.
Are you serious? I’m pretty sure uneducated politicians are the leeches that have sucked the education system dry of any credibility with all of their bullshit about teacher pay and testing.
And the “real job” comment? I hope to God that is satirical, other wise it’s full of complete bullshit and you are sorely mistaken on the role of educators.
Does education need reform? Fuck yes it does. But reform that punishes teachers because “they have an easy job?” Fuck that. Spend a week in a classroom. Then tell me it’s fucking easy.
My parents were both teachers when I was little. My dad decided to stop being a teacher so he could settle into the calm, stress-free life of being a corporate attorney, while my mother, who recently retired from education after 38 years, spent every career day of mine growing up saying “YOU DON’T WANT TO BE A TEACHER, DO YOU???” My husband has a masters in education and you know what he did? Taught for a year and then decided information technology was a breezier career path, which it totally has been, as we’re still in touch with nearly everyone in his M.Ed. program and the red tape horror stories are seriously getting worse by the day. My best friend is a high school teacher and I shudder at every bureaucratic story she tells me.
Incidentally, I had unlimited sick days at my entry level office job, straight out of college, and short-term disability was six months. I also earned about 15K above what a teacher’s starting salary in my area is. Double incidentally, I live in the state with the highest teacher salaries anywhere, so that should allow you to draw your own conclusions about how abysmal teacher salaries really are.
Anyone who thinks being a teacher is a cakewalk is a naive little turdburger, and I give everyone everywhere complete permission to write them the fuck off as shit-stirrers who wouldn’t know a fact from their forehead.
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