Teachers getting paid for their summers off
WASHINGTON, DC (TWP)
In national news, President Obama said he wants to put an end to the backlash against teachers who don’t work in the summer by paying them to do so. His plan calls for compensating the time it takes to create lesson plans, attend workshops and conferences, read, and prepare for the school year during June and July.
President Obama noted in a primetime speech on education, “The misconception is that teachers get paid in the summer. The truth is that summer for teachers is unpaid leave. It’s comparable to what happens to an employee being investigated for a crime. Take two months while we investigate your crimes, sucker, and by the way, we’re not paying you for it either.”
”Finally,” second-year science teacher Billy Leston noted, “someone in power is doing some myth-busting. The first year teaching salary here is $36,000. If I worked AND got paid for June and July, then I would make $42,000