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I know this isn't normal across the country, but all of you complaining come teach in PA!
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Find teaching jobs up North that are open. It's soooo much harder to find open jobs (as teachers) in the North.
And for those that are saying teachers get 3 months off during the summer...let me give you some info (I'm a teacher if you haven't figured that out yet)...
1. Teachers don't get paid during the SUMMER!!! So we get 25k-35k (starting) a year - but we do not get paid during the summer. It's so hard to go 3 months with out getting a pay check. You have to tuck away money all year long (so you really are making less each month than your check says). You have to get a job in the summer making peanuts - while still doing work to get ready for your kids.
2. Teachers usually put in at least 13-14 hours a day. I get to school at 7:30 AM and leave at 5:30 each day. Then at home, I grade papers or lesson plan for at least 3 hours. I'm a new teacher, so this will decrease as I get materials built up, etc.
3. And finally, there is such thing as year round school - I teach 9 weeks on, 3 weeks off (no summer) - and during my 3 weeks off - one of those week is spent planning (like at school planning days) and then I have two weeks off...which during those weeks, since I'm still a new teacher, I'm lesson planning at home. I'm trying to transfer to a traditional school...this schedule is killing me.
We do not get paid enough for what we have to put up with all day.
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