Been awhile....

Sometimes I get so caught up in projects, I forget to do things, like this...

I loved the "Teachers Have It Easy" book so much, I made my husband read it, just so he could really get a feel for my work. Not that the underpaid social worker who acknowledges that he doesn't see me 10 months out of the year doesn't already know that. But, he plowed through it then asked for reassurance that I would not teach until I am old enough to retire! Well, I have always said that once it stops being fun watching the students learn and grow, that's when I leave. I will NEVER let myself become the teacher who just shows up to get the paycheck, no matter how small that paycheck is.

So I will also be doing a neat little thing once the school year gets going. In the book, there is a multi-page feature comparing the days of a teacher and a pharmaceutical salesman, hour by hour. Depressing is a good word. So I will be doing a couple of hour-by-hour blogs - a play-by-play of sorts. Not to be a martyr, but more so I can see for myself what I do during the day. Just self-examination. A neat little side benefit would be if some of the many people who think teachers are lazy or have it easy with summers off, week vacations, blah, blah, blah will actually see that is not the case. I have a relative who is very nice except she has that "teachers have it great with all their time off" and I had to hear it again last night. Most of us do not sit on our tails sunning ourselves at the beach all summer. And if I did, I would say that is a fair reward for all the time I give during the year. How about teachers get the same respect as doctors and police? Just wait for the September play-by-play...