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Originally Posted by shakran
A teacher's job is low pay because they get 3 months of vacation in a row every year, a month off at Christmastime, and an extra week in the spring. If I only worked 7.75 months a year I'd expect lower pay too.
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It's important to note that teachers work many hours outside of the classroom. This includes evenings and weekends. (Oh, and it's more like 2 weeks at Christmas; at least, where we live.)
Of note: Teachers spend a mean time of 58 minutes a day pursuing employment activities at home, compared to only 37 minutes for managers/administrators. In a subsample of respondents whose time-use information was on a weekend day, teachers gave a mean of more than an hour (66.8 min.) to their work on the diary day, compared to 7.2 minutes for the managers/executives. Similarly, teachers devote more than twice the number of episodes to their work at home on a given weekday than do managers/administrators (0.67 to 0.3) and more than five times the number on a weekend day (0.55 to 0.10).
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