Traverse City Record-Eagle - Article: Some teachers don't take a break:
"As for how she spent her summer vacation, she worked full time in the pro shop at the Traverse City Golf and Country Club, baby-sat one or two times a week and took two graduate-level courses.
More often than not, a teacher's summer vacation is no vacation at all. Many take summer jobs, summer courses, continuing education classes or part-time work.
Whether it's a matter of supplementing a salary -- a first-year teacher with a bachelor's degree in the Traverse City Area Public Schools earns $32,500 -- or just wanting to keep busy, summer often isn't a time for a teacher to recline in a lawn chair with a mojito."
"As for how she spent her summer vacation, she worked full time in the pro shop at the Traverse City Golf and Country Club, baby-sat one or two times a week and took two graduate-level courses.
More often than not, a teacher's summer vacation is no vacation at all. Many take summer jobs, summer courses, continuing education classes or part-time work.
Whether it's a matter of supplementing a salary -- a first-year teacher with a bachelor's degree in the Traverse City Area Public Schools earns $32,500 -- or just wanting to keep busy, summer often isn't a time for a teacher to recline in a lawn chair with a mojito."
