This article may, supposedly, be satire; however, teacher’s unions are making outrageous demands before agreeing to return to work. As a caveat, not all teachers agree with all of the politics of teacher’s unions. Those teachers seem to have no impact. Either they are not vocal or just go along.
Not Satisfied With Just Having Summers Off, Teachers Push For Fall, Winter, Spring
July 20th, 2020
U.S.—Studies have shown teachers are the laziest people on the planet, only working nine months and doing absolutely nothing for three months of the year. What’s more, when they do work, teachers wander into school at 7 and go home at 2, having done nothing all day but press play on Bill Nye the Science Guy VHS tapes.
But having summers off isn’t enough for the ungrateful public “servants”: teachers are looking to leverage the pandemic into getting the other three seasons off too.
“I am just way overworked having to go in nine months out of the year,” said Mrs. Mosley, a third-grade teacher from Seattle. “Can’t we get the fall off? And when winter rolls around, I mean, it’s cold. Who wants to go to work in the winter? This is the problem with capitalism: you have to work for food and money.”
“And don’t get me started on spring: it’s so nice outside. Forcing teachers to work in spring is tyranny of the highest order. It’s like, um… hang on, let me think of a literary reference.”
She pulled out her phone and googled “fictional villains.”
“It’s like Voldemort in Harry Potter!” she said finally.
Teachers’ unions are, of course, still demanding that the teachers be paid for their 12 months off.
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The facts are teachers do not work a full nine months. They have 7-10 days for Christmas Break otherwise now known as Winter Break. They receive five days for Spring Break. Add in the monthly “teacher work day” where they often just chit chat about the difficulties of their students. We must not leave out the declared Federal and State/Commonwealth (there are four) days off. Next we have parent conference dayswhere very few parents show up. As with other employers, they receive personal days and sick days. Adding all those days together, teachers only work eight months, or less, per year. Yes, evenings often see them performing work for their jobs; however, many people who work twelve months per year, do the same.
The point is these individuals chose to be teachers. No sentient individual, who chose this profession, is unaware of the demands. Every single one of them goes through “student teaching”, giving them an up close, on the job, view of what they will be dealing with. It is past time for push back against an organization who cares less about students and more about themselves and a political agenda.