... we should pay school teachers less because they have 3 months off in summer?

-- Mal

Everyone says three but most often it is mid-to-late June to mid-to-late August. (I'm attending three conferences during that time for professional development and working my second job).

Which was my last experience with the school year.

-- Mal

at school was June 17th and I start back on August 18th or 19th. Like you I too am doing CEU work over this two month break. Unlike you I am fortunate to have a pretty good retirement check from years of being in the military so I don't need the extra job to survive. It makes me crazy though when I see, hear, and read people saying teachers only work 9-10 months and get paid for doing nothing over the summer, two weeks off at Christmas etc.... My summers are always full of CEU/PD work that of course are not paid for by the county or state, but are required for me to continue teaching....

I presume that's true generally, but of course I don't know for certain. I am paid for nine months service per year, not twelve. My nine months of pay is divided into twelve paychecks, so I get a check every month, but if I were actually paid the full amount of my salary each month I'd get nine paychecks per year that are bigger than ones I get now, and no checks the remaining three months. In other words, I'm not paid for those summer months at all. Zip.

members whose endorsements are touted and the Party supports those 11 and the 7 others who simply did not vote at all. They have met no criticism from those in higher offices nor those in power in the Party who often support such positions. They are funded, cossetted and encouraged by their peers. They have endorsed candidates who have thanked them for those endorsements rather than rejecting those endorsements.

It's their economic funeral.

It was bad enough in the 1980's, but to pretend the real 21st century issues of a state with over 10 million people in it can be handled in the time it takes to plant and grow a Tobacco crop is absurd and dangerously irresponsible.

...year? With 6 months of it left? Nice work if you can get it.