The teachers I know must be total slackers. Workshops and conferences all summer long? Really? Fact remains that most lesson planning involves repurposing old

The teachers I know must be total slackers. Workshops and conferences all summer long? Really? Fact remains that most lesson planning involves repurposing old material. It is never from a clean slate and now with testing pushed so much there is little time for a flexible curriculum. How many times are you going to rewrite the fractions lesson? Next response will state that teachers actually work more than 365 days a year as they have mastered time travel. I respect teachers, but blind statements that they work so much actually does more harm than good. Work smart, not hard. Which is why people are buying lesson plans than writing their own. And going on vacation instead of that boring workshop.