I’m a physical education teacher for grades 5-12 in Romania, currently on summer break (21 June - 7 September), and still getting paid as usual. It’s awesome.
In the US, it’s really that you are taking a pay cut during the year to get paid during the summer.
I’ve never had a real “summer break.” Always either second job, professional development, or school.
Also during the year US teachers work 10-12 hours a day during school weeks.
My area they have the option, equal pay every month year round, or more pay during school months and nothing during summer.
My wife has that option as well. It takes 10% out of each paycheck, and she gets 1 additional check in the summer months of the money that was withheld. We are terrible with money, so doing that is a must, but I do wish we could just set that up ourselves instead of allowing them to hold that money.
You probably need them just to deal with the stress induced by teenagers.
I really admire teachers, in my country they don’t make much money and are subject to be placed hundreds of km away from their families for years.
I imagine being a high school teacher sometimes feels like being Margaret Dumont in a Marx Brothers movie.
But isn’t your pay pro-rata? In the UK (unless it has changed, which I doubt) then they get a pro-rata wage, so yes they still get paid in those months even though they aren’t working but the money they are getting paid in those months is taken from the pay cheques across the other months to make it all balance out.
So really they aren’t getting paid for those months as they don’t work them.
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Fair. Bonus for you :D
Barrister here. Our courts go on recess for about as long as schools go on holiday. Alas, for us, the knock on effect is dire:
- Court logs are jammed and hearing dates are pushed absurdly far in the future. (Application becomes opposed = see you in a year from now; trial becomes defended = see you in five years, at best.)
- We’re also all sole practitioners (members of the various Bar councils) so, no work no fees.
June-July and December-January are devastating. If I had kids I’m sure I’d appreciate these forced breaks, but I don’t, so I can’t.
Teachers, however, deserve it waaay more than us, that’s for sure. If I won €1 billion I’d give 99% to teachers. It’s an inexcusable tragedy that you’re paid so little for an incredibly tough job with significant social importance.
I tip my cap to teachers. You’re fucking hero(in)es.
Could you elaborate on what a barrister is? I was completely confused why someone who works with coffee is talking about courts. I assume it’s a legal profession?
It’s a British term for a lawyer who can plead cases in court. Baristas make coffee
Trial lawyer
Aaah, that tracks. Thanks :)
I’m a Teacher in a private school in the Netherlands. We don’t get those breaks (because private sector), but there also is no class. So this year we’re doing a work week in France with some colleagues at someone’s family summer house. Otherwise, breaks are usually a good time to get some actual work done.
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That makes so much more sense than pure time off.
If I ever emigrated, it would be to Nederland. Weather be damned, the Dutch are top-tier.
In Greece u get fired in the summer and rehired in September.
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It’s true, but not always fun or paid. Depends on the contract. A non tenured teacher can be let go at the end of the school year, and they normally let them know if they are coming back before leaving for the summer. They are then allowed to collect unemployment for the summer, but i am not sure if this applies to every state. If you are tenured, you do not lose unemployment status, but you are also not paid for the summer months either. You either set aside the money from the year yourself or use the program they offer that takes 10% out of each paycheck, and they deposit it once per month you are off.
I asked a teacher once why he was a teacher and he literally just said “the holidays are good”. Lol.
