West Virginia Teachers on Strike, still make sure hungry students are fed

[The Valkyrie]

I have been averaging about 2700 hours for the last three years. Average for the US is ~1740 I believe. I get called out on weekends and nights. I’m salary, so I don’t clock in, but I started keeping track of my hours after a couple of 22 hour days about 3 years ago. The schedule you described would be a welcome break! You may want to be careful with your assumptions! Also, I think that people often overestimate their time, if not specifically keeping track. I know I tended to remember the 65-70 hour weeks a lot more than the 50 hour ones, before I started keeping track.

It’s not that I don’t think teachers work hard, but I don’t think your description is typical either. It could differ by area, and certainly would be different by subject. I know that most of my teachers had one or two free periods in high school (one may have been a study hall). Although I could certainly see an English teacher grading papers taking more time; perhaps an extra 4 hours a night.... this wasn’t constant.

Again.... I’m not bashing teachers. Just saying, that comparisons which don’t account for hours are not correct.

By the way..what do you teach?

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You may also note, that the teachers around here, make quite a bit better in a lot of places, than what was cited for Arizona.

Ohhhh ohhhhh can I play "My Life is Harder Than Yours"? I wanna play the kidney failure card more often.

Kidney failure?

Pffft!

One night my heart exploded. I couldn't afford a phone, so I couldn't call an ambulance.

So I left the box I lived in, carrying the remnants ofmy heart in my bare hards, and walked 20 miles, uphill, in a blizzard, to my nearest hospital.

They didn't have a spare heart so I now have, in my chest, a hamster in a wheel.

And it wasn't a young hamster to begin with!