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<p>Cobrat, you seem to have friends who have the worst luck (you have to stop listening to all of those stories coming from Cliff Clavin and SophIa Petrillo). In all my years working for the DOE (which I currently still do), I have never, ever had a mandatory summer obligation (in fact they are against our contract and cause for grievance). There may be people who have “mandatory summer obligations” like completing their masters in order to keep their jobs because they could not fit their courses in through the school year (especially if they are coming up on their 5th year in the classroom). Perhaps they are looking to work on their 30 credits over their masters or are taking courses/internships to get an administrative license as it may be more advantageous to them to do this work over the summer. Even future administrators that go through LEAP/principals program are paid for their summer work. </p>
<p>The only people who do “mandatory summer work” are principals, who contractually work 12 months, AP who have been hired in the last 8 years are 12 month APs 10 month APs are paid per session for working over the summer (however, both Principals and 12 month AP’s have 3 weeks of vacation over the summer).</p>
<p>But believe me when I tell you there is absolutely nothing that is mandatory that has to be done over the summer. People who do sign up for workshops, summer school, grading regents, programming, setting up the new school year, working on IEP’s etc, are paid for their time and at any time can decline to do any activity without any kind of fear or repercussion!!</p>