Going to a stellar college "just to be a teacher"

[cobrat]

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I do think, though, that the schedule is fair (personally, I think we should have longer school days, and longer school years) but Cobrat is more right than wrong. I get off 11 weeks of the year, plus random Monday holidays. Four of those weeks are paid vacation, and the rest is unpaid. Last year, I had mandatory workshops for three of those unpaid weeks (I got mileage and a $25 per diem) and I worked on prepping for the year for another several. I spent all of my paid vacation grading. I am not alone.

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<p>I believe this largely confirms what I kept hearing and noticing of friends who teach public school in NYC and other urban systems.</p>

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Cobrat, you have it backward. Charter schools have significantly more required summer hours. Significantly more.

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<p>True, but my friend’s experience was that teaching in a charter school had less bureaucratic hassles and when she’s took summer vacation, it was genuinely more carefree than her current experience in a NYC public high school.</p>

<p>Granted, she’s getting better pay, benefits, and is closer to doing her part to improve one NYC public high school which was what she had always wanted to do since we were adolescents.</p>