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Originally Posted by Tin Monkey

Do you mean the average worker who works 9 to 5 and then finishes work, as opposed to a teacher who works 8 to 5 and then still works evenings and weekends?

Teachers working 8 till 5? You can’t be serious!

I live directly across the road from a secondary school and the teachers arrive in their droves shortly before school starts and can’t get away fast enough after the last pupil has left. More like something to nine to shortly after three thirty. Knocking off time is more like the start of the Le Mans as they dash to their cars and scream away.

If teachers knew their subjects thoroughly they wouldn’t need to make lengthy preparations the night before, just a simple which bit of the subject is the next to teach.

In spite of their protestations to the contrary, compared to the factory/office/shop etc worker, teachers have it easy when it comes to holidays.