murphydcat t1_iu59drd wrote on October 28, 2022 at 5:22 PM

Reply to comment by daedalus_was_right in Sub shortage adds to teacher stress: Many report depression, burnout and more after COVID-19 burdens by rollotomasi07071

I was married to a teacher. We had to purchase paint and paint her classroom over the summer.

She often emails me assignments, quizzes, etc and asks me to run off copies at my office because the one copier that serves the entire school is broken.

My brother makes over $200k as a middle manager for an insurance company and often rants how teachers are overpaid and hardly work because they "get summers off."

daedalus_was_right t1_iu59jpj wrote on October 28, 2022 at 5:23 PM

Yup. Quite a few of those shitstains in this very thread today.

ChefMike1407 t1_iu5m5tw wrote on October 28, 2022 at 6:48 PM

I’ve never had a summer off in 12 years. And let’s be honest, most of the teachers not working are taking care of their families.

WaltzThinking t1_iu5f8nu wrote on October 28, 2022 at 6:02 PM

Thanks for this apt summary of the situation.

Linenoise77 t1_iu5ahls wrote on October 28, 2022 at 5:30 PM

What district in NJ is letting teachers paint their rooms.

My wife is an educator, I've been in tons of schools in my course of work as well.

The shitstorm that would cause with the union would be insane.