Do teachers get Winter Break off too?

thumper1
Tue, 26 Dec 2006 10:48:06 +0000

I thought that teachers get the full two weeks off; my mother says that they come back early or leave later. Wouldn’t it be mean to make teachers work during Winter Break? >>




In most public schools, teachers are paid for a certain number of contractual days per year. Where I am this includes 183 student days and 3 inservice days. Our GC’s and high school department chairpeople are paid for about 5 additional days per year (prior to or after the end of school in the summer). No one at our school (except the custodians) will be working this week. Teachers are not paid for any of their “vacations”…they are only paid for the time that they are contracted to work. As a teacher, I certainly would not mind getting paid for some days when students are NOT there…but that is not something that most public schools do. Any work done during school vacations by teachers is done because they want or need to get it done. Please, can we not turn this thread into a “discussion” of how much teachers get paid, and how they get paid? There are already many threads elsewhere online for this.