Take the Day Off for Teachbad’s Anniversary!! | Mr. Teachbad

Take the Day Off for Teachbad’s Anniversary!! | Mr. Teachbad:

Take the Day Off for Teachbad’s Anniversary!!

by teachbad

Before we get into today’s post about days off work, I’d like to point out that today, Decem­ber 9, 2012, is the three-year anniver­sary of Mr. Teachbad’s Blog of Teacher Dis­gruntle­ment: Where Teach­ers Laugh and Com­plain; short­ened now mostly to the more com­pact and effi­cient Teach­bad.

As a spe­cial treat, there is a 72-hour 20% off sale in the Strictly Home-Use Teacher Gift Store. This extends to pre­ex­ist­ing quan­tity dis­counts! The sale starts right now: Sun­day at 2:04am and ends at 2:04am on Tuesday.

And now back to our reg­u­larly sched­uled post:

Two years ago I couldn’t have imag­ined a world where I would have a job and not have 15 days off for Christ­mas. How could a 15-day break ever be prop­erly squeezed into a four-day week­end and New Year’s Day? And what kind of life could you really have with­out spring break? What would be the point?

After six years of teach­ing, I could no longer imag­ine func­tion­ing pro­fes­sion­ally if I had to go to work on Colum­bus Day, Labor Day, Veteran’s Day, Mar­tin Luther King, Jr. Day, Pres­i­dents’ Day, DC Eman­ci­pa­tion Day or Memo­r­ial Day. Hav­ing