Poll of the Day > The best part about being a teacher: summer vacation

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MrCool812
05/26/17 2:22:27 PM
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Actually, the best part is making fun of students every day when they come up with endless material for ridicule, but summer vacation is pretty nice, too.
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Jen0125
05/26/17 2:40:45 PM
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do you have to really budget during the year to be able to have money for your bills over the summer? or do you get paychecks in the summer too?
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MrCool812
05/26/17 7:19:31 PM
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Last two jobs I got one big paycheck at the end of the schoolyear and had to budget (which wasn't that big of a deal). This school pays me on a 12 month cycle. It actually works out better because I took on an extra class second semester, so I technically got paid more than if I were to do it first semester.
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Jen0125
05/26/17 7:22:23 PM
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oh if you get a big check at the end of the school year that's not so hard

i was thinking you get larger checks for 9 months and then nothing for 3 months but you have to save a bit of each of the checks through the year to pay for the summer expenses

that'd be tough for me
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MrCool812
05/26/17 7:26:15 PM
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I think there's an option for that, too, but I never took it. One of my teacher friends did that, did not budget, and ran out of money in July. Had to borrow money from a bunch of different people to survive 2 months before his next paycheck.
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helIy
05/26/17 7:26:48 PM
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i think getting paid that way would be a pain, too, because you don't have steady income rolling in. you get that one check that has to last you the entire year

MrCool812 posted...
I think there's an option for that, too, but I never took it. One of my teacher friends did that, did not budget, and ran out of money in July. Had to borrow money from a bunch of different people to survive 2 months before his next paycheck.

yeah, that.

you'd have to hardcore budget yourself.

take what you got, divide it into 12, then take that and divide it into 2 or 4, and just act like what those amounts are are your paychecks, so i guess it's not too hard if you have a little restraint
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Jen0125
05/26/17 7:28:25 PM
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yeah i'd definitely prefer 12 months of pay
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myghostisdead
05/26/17 8:20:21 PM
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We got paid for what we worked but the district spread it out over 12 months. We got our checks on the 15th of each month.

Usually the last day of school for teachers fell the last week of May but depending on how many days we had unscheduled days off it could have gone in to June.

We were required to do 60 hours of training in the summer and we started back the first week of August.

We used to have to do gate duty at sporting events, unpaid. Some days I did not make it home until 1:00 a.m. later we were paid $15.00 ....woohoo...

I enjoyed a lot of my students when I taught public school but it was a lot of work and stress.
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MrCool812
05/27/17 12:01:53 PM
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myghostisdead posted...
We got paid for what we worked but the district spread it out over 12 months. We got our checks on the 15th of each month.

Usually the last day of school for teachers fell the last week of May but depending on how many days we had unscheduled days off it could have gone in to June.

We were required to do 60 hours of training in the summer and we started back the first week of August.

We used to have to do gate duty at sporting events, unpaid. Some days I did not make it home until 1:00 a.m. later we were paid $15.00 ....woohoo...

I enjoyed a lot of my students when I taught public school but it was a lot of work and stress.


Yea, I don't miss doing the extra duties. My current school requires us to do x amount of hours, but we also get a pretty nice stipend for it.

And summer stuff...I have to take Arizona constitution to become fully licensed here. I've been putting it off for two years and it needs to get done. I asked what purpose it served, and someone told me that it's in case Arizona decides to secede. I think that's pretty funny, but I know it's just a cash grab for the schools.
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Sarcasthma
05/27/17 12:03:40 PM
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I still have to use paid leave during summer vacation. :(
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OneTimeBen
05/27/17 12:04:05 PM
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It's not the hot boys or girls? The fact a school teacher today is here now. I'm concerned.
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green dragon
05/27/17 12:09:16 PM
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I have about 20 days of school left, man. Super stoked
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OneTimeBen
05/27/17 12:12:08 PM
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green dragon posted...
I have about 20 days of school left, man. Super stoked

Must be medical?
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green dragon
05/27/17 12:12:45 PM
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OneTimeBen posted...
green dragon posted...
I have about 20 days of school left, man. Super stoked

Must be medical?

No, I teach. We get out June 23
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OneTimeBen
05/27/17 12:13:32 PM
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green dragon posted...
OneTimeBen posted...
green dragon posted...
I have about 20 days of school left, man. Super stoked

Must be medical?

No, I teach. We get out June 23

Well alright.
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MrCool812
05/27/17 12:14:30 PM
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SmokeMassTree
05/27/17 1:08:04 PM
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Smart option is taking the more money during the school year and putting the extra into a savings account.
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supergamer19
05/27/17 1:40:30 PM
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Jen0125 posted...
do you have to really budget during the year to be able to have money for your bills over the summer? or do you get paychecks in the summer too?



I haven't read the rest of the topic, but over here, permenant teachers get paid a salary though out the year.

LTO's after some time get paid as a new full time teacher, but they don't get paid through out the summer or over breaks, so they technically get paid more per week, but can go up to 3 months without a paycheck.

LTO stands for Long-Term Occasional, and it's basically a supply teacher who teaches for an extended period of time. Such as when a teacher goes on maternity leave or has a big accident and needs weeks/months to recover.
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supergamer19
05/27/17 1:44:30 PM
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Oh yea, after the LTO is done, you're back to square one and are back to being a regular supply teacher, and hoping to become permanent or luck into another LTO.
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Dynalo
05/27/17 2:52:00 PM
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One of my friends is a teacher and they don't get a choice about pay. They get paid 10 months of the year, and have to go through the summer without any money coming in.

Also, the two months off is nice and all, but in a way it also sucks for a teacher. You basically have to book your life around the worst possible times to travel, as those are the only times you get off. You get a couple personal days off, but it's hard to justify using them when your friends want to travel somewhere for a random concert in March.

Still worth it though. Between Christmas break, spring break, summer holidays and a few other random days off, teachers get an absurd amount of holidays.
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Dynalo
05/27/17 2:54:27 PM
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SmokeMassTree posted...
Smart option is taking the more money during the school year and putting the extra into a savings account.


Technically speaking, sure. But since you need to keep the money in an easily accessible form, you'll basically make fuck all in interest in the money so it won't really make a difference.

Some people would rather have the peace of mind of a constant money flow rather than have the $15 they'd make in interest on the money.
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MrCool812
05/27/17 2:54:55 PM
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Dynalo posted...
One of my friends is a teacher and they don't get a choice about pay. They get paid 10 months of the year, and have to go through the summer without any money coming in.

Also, the two months off is nice and all, but in a way it also sucks for a teacher. You basically have to book your life around the worst possible times to travel, as those are the only times you get off. You get a couple personal days off, but it's hard to justify using them when your friends want to travel somewhere for a random concert in March.

Still worth it though. Between Christmas break, spring break, summer holidays and a few other random days off, teachers get an absurd amount of holidays.


Everyone says this, but very few breaks are actually breaks. You end up doing a lot of grading/lesson planning/ re-certification stuff.

Plus the summer break makes senses since we end up working two jobs during the year (the job at school when you're actively in front of students and the second job where you are creating the stuff to do during the other job)
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Dynalo
05/27/17 2:59:38 PM
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MrCool812 posted...
Everyone says this, but very few breaks are actually breaks. You end up doing a lot of grading/lesson planning/ re-certification stuff.


Depends on the teacher. I know several teachers who refuse to do any type of grading or work during the holidays. They'd rather just put in a few extra hours before or after the holidays.

I also know teachers that go into the school at 6am and don't leave until 6pm. And you know what? He gets paid the same as the other guys.

MrCool812 posted...
Plus the summer break makes senses since we end up working two jobs during the year (the job at school when you're actively in front of students and the second job where you are creating the stuff to do during the other job)


How often are you realistically changing your curriculum or planning new things? Sure, it's a lot of work when you first start but most teachers get into a groove after the first few years and only make minor tweaks. You don't need to reinvent the wheel every year. Unless, obviously, there's a massive change to the curriculum itself.
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MrCool812
05/27/17 4:27:05 PM
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Dynalo posted...
Depends on the teacher. I know several teachers who refuse to do any type of grading or work during the holidays. They'd rather just put in a few extra hours before or after the holidays.

I also know teachers that go into the school at 6am and don't leave until 6pm. And you know what? He gets paid the same as the other guys.


I get in at 6 so i can leave at the end of the day, take a break for a few hours, and then work some more at home.

Dynalo posted...
How often are you realistically changing your curriculum or planning new things? Sure, it's a lot of work when you first start but most teachers get into a groove after the first few years and only make minor tweaks. You don't need to reinvent the wheel every year. Unless, obviously, there's a massive change to the curriculum itself.


Any teacher that relies on the exact same material every year is a bad teacher. I teach English, so there's a ton of new stuff to do every year. I can see this being true for most of the other subjects, however.
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