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To objectively evaluate teacher benefits relative to other occupations, several relevant conditions need to be factored in. For example, teachers work about 20 percent fewer days annually than other white-collar workers
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I would say this is not objective thinking and analysis at all. Teachers have to do a great deal of work 'off the clock' in terms of lesson plans, meetings with parents, and grading papers (among other tasks). I just visited several public school teachers this week and they spend a lot of extra time making things happen 'off the clock.' And I, who is 'out of school' right now and 'on vacation, will have made 6 or seven visits to schools off the clock during these two weeks away from Memphis. I don't get paid for this but it is vital for me to do these sorts of 'support and recruiting' visitis to make my program work.