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I thought it was a good question, and I didn't really believe your answer. I wanted to see if any statistics support what you said, and the reality is a bit dif

I thought it was a good question, and I didn't really believe your answer. I wanted to see if any statistics support what you said, and the reality is a bit different. Teachers put in fewer hours than other workers, and they work on average 20 hours a week during the summer [1]. To be clear it's more nuanced than "fewer hours" in the article, but the average teacher works 40ish hours a week. If you're a teacher, I'm sure you're tired of hearing people wonder whether teachers are working all summer, but the fact is it's a great fucking question and you shouldn't be offended when someone asks it. It beggars belief, and it's a question that should be asked over and over again until the answer is "no". 1. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2019/06/12/do-teachers-work-long-hours/ https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2019/...

fleetwoodsnack 4y ago
I address what work if any teachers perform during the summer to prepare for the upcoming semester. Your link attempts to quantify the hours teachers work during a work week. Your statement is unrelated to mine, did you mean to reply elsewhere?
- DangitBobby 4y ago
  My mistake. When you responded to someone asking what teachers did all summer, you responded in a way that made me believe you thought they did. But now the question is, if you weren't saying that teachers work all summer, what was the point in itemizing the things they have to do each summer? Maybe you responded to the wrong comment? To make things easier, I'll bring back some context from earlier in the thread: > Teachers are still required to plan and get ready for the next school year over the summer. . . I thought this was more or less the entire topic of interest. That, and how much teachers work. What do you think the conversation is about? Pretty confused how you could think it's not relevant. You were needlessly combative earlier, so I guess I could chalk it up to that.

fleetwoodsnack 4y ago

I address what work if any teachers perform during the summer to prepare for the upcoming semester. Your link attempts to quantify the hours teachers work during a work week. Your statement is unrelated to mine, did you mean to reply elsewhere?

DangitBobby 4y ago
My mistake. When you responded to someone asking what teachers did all summer, you responded in a way that made me believe you thought they did. But now the question is, if you weren't saying that teachers work all summer, what was the point in itemizing the things they have to do each summer? Maybe you responded to the wrong comment? To make things easier, I'll bring back some context from earlier in the thread: > Teachers are still required to plan and get ready for the next school year over the summer. . . I thought this was more or less the entire topic of interest. That, and how much teachers work. What do you think the conversation is about? Pretty confused how you could think it's not relevant. You were needlessly combative earlier, so I guess I could chalk it up to that.