Teaching is full time pay for part time work according to ANTIs

Our ANTI friends are fond of telling us how easy our jobs are. They seem to really envy us. Yet they never seem to want to come get a job as a teacher. I wonder why. Below is the latest ANTI blast at the overpayment of those lazy school teachers in VUSD. In this case it is a public school hater and prominent ANTI blogger who calls himself, unlaxx that posted.

unlaxx said on: February 11, 2010, 4:53 pm
The salary figures being tossed around here are quoted as if they're annual pay.

Teaching is a part-time job, less than 8 hours / day and 185 days which works out to around 8-1/2 months / year.

Civil servant jobs have never been hard to staff because you have to be a complete idiot to get fired, and you can coast through your employment years knowing you'll be getting a pension.


con no more (that's me) said on: February 11, 2010, 9:22 pm
Hey Unlaxx if it is so easy why don't you come on down to your local VUSD school and volunteer to help or better yet get yourself hired as a substitute teacher. You must have two years of college, right? You could qualify easy with your vast knowledge. You are not afraid are you?

I have found that most of our ANTI friends are secretly terrified of being in charge of a birthday party of six or seven kids at their homes let alone a classroom full of thirty children. Certainly you are not one of those are you Unlaxx. I bet you would have a very interesting day as a substitute. Don't you like adventure, Unlaxx? Well come on down.

You may found what I know after more than 25 years in California public education. I never met a K-12 teacher who works "less than 8 hours a day" that you say they work in your 4:58 pm post.

My VUSD elementary teaching spouse works from 7:00am until at least 4;30pm every single school day then grades papers in the evenings and on weekends. She works far more hours in a year than any eight hour a day employee of any traditional job that ends when the shift ends. The work of teaching starts in August and does not end until the after cleaning up the room after the last day of school.

I have worked as a third grade teacher, a sixth grade teacher, a middle school teacher and high school teacher. In none of those jobs did work only an eight hour day nor did I know of any one else who did either.

Perhaps Unlaxx, you could come to one of our schools and show us how to teach for six and a half hours then lesson plan, grade papers, fill out forms, run off handouts, record test grades, attend useless mandatory meetings, etc in less than eight hours. After all from your tone you must be an expert. Who else could be so certain as you sound?

Where have I heard there are only two kinds of people with your kind of certainty, there are the experts and then there are the ? what was the word for other kind of person? I think it started with an 'i'.