The School Year Will End on June ____, 2011! The School Year Will End on June ____, 2011!
It has begun. The comments.
”I hate teachers, you guys get the entire summer off.”
“I wish I could sit home for three months and do nothing.”
“Do you get paid when you’re off?”
And the one that really ticks me off, “You all have it easy.” HA!
What people don’t realize is that after spending 177 days, (doesn’t seem like much does it), with other people’s children, you are ready to take a year off, not just two to three months. We are drained, physically and emotionally. When you are all things to 25-30+ students, day in and day out, you are wiped out. If teachers did not get this break, we might go “ teachal”. Doesn’t quite have the same ring as “postal” does it? But, you get what I mean. And I would be remiss if