It's a pretty good gig, being a teacher - having paid summers off; but, would you get tired of having all of that time off?

I wouldn’t – I’d probably have some kind of volunteering gigs lined up just for that time.

Oh hells no.

I might, however, feel like strangling a kid or two.

Are you crazy? It might look like time off, but there would be a million things to do.

Hell no. I’d kill to have all that time off. Do you know how much traveling I could do then? I live to travel.

Why no,I wouldn’t.If you get too bored,come over and paint my fence.:)

Apparently, I have lost my mind. ;-)

My wife loves it. She says it’s one of the few perks of being a teacher. I would love to have the time off, but I cannot be around kids for too long.

I do get tired of it, but I wouldn’t trade it for not having it.

No. Just three months of the year, and then you are back to work. No problem, sounds like a great perk.

absolutely not. It rocks!!

@lucillelucillelucille Help me with my coffee table? ;-)

Temporary job during the summer? You might end up working with some students. In fact, they’d probably be your boss. That would suck.

Heck no. I used to work in a school (catering staff, not a teacher) and I loved having so many weeks off. The pay was terrible though.

Summers off are nice, but it is so hard getting into the groove again when school starts. Same for the kids. I’m all for year-round school.

I haven’t experienced it (as I teach college), but I’d love to give it a try. I don’t like the Summer or Summer activities, so I’d probably complete projects around the house, volunteer some time and pick up a freelance gig or two.

No, that would be why I am finishing up my teaching credential. Funny story: My old man was a middle school teacher and he spent lots of time every summer complaining about the “forced, unpaid lay-off” he had to endure.

Both of my sisters are teachers. One was the sole bread-winner, so she often spent the time off teaching summer school for the addl. money or being involved in a paid AP paper-grading program, which she adored. In addition, they take classes to become re-certified, attend teachers’ meetings, and develop lesson plans for the following year, particularly if they have to take on a new class or new text book.

Both have enough outside-of-work responsibilities and interests that they keep very busy during summer downtime.

Most teachers I’ve talked with either taught summer school or got a summer job because the total pay for teachers is so abysmally low. Plus, they spend a lot of the time creating the plans for the next year, so it’s less off than it might seem.

I’ve been retired for ten months now and am doing a little freelance work. As far as I’m concerned, this could have started 30 years ago and I’d have been happy, except that it’s hard to be happy when you’re broke. Another 20 or 30 years of freedom won’t be too much.

My parents were teachers. My father always taught in summer school and then spent the remaining few weeks with a full slate of home-maintenance chores. My mother took the summer off because we four kids had the summer off.

Uh, no, that was my main motivation to become a teacher!

Most teachers I know have to take summer jobs in order to pay their bills.

Teachers in my area’s system don’t get any more holidays than anyone else. They still have to go to school in the holidays to prepare classes for the term to come, as well as the myriad of other things a teacher normally has to deal with. Classes are only half of a teacher’s job.

I’d love it. That would be the time I’d spend visiting and/or road tripping.

I’m retired for five years now and I love not working.

Another way to look at it is that teachers are laid off every summer. They work for 9 months and they are paid for 9 months work, and during the remaining 3 months most of them are scooping ice cream, tending bar, waitressing or whatever other work they can find. They are ALSO preparing lesson plans for fall. Time off? Don’t make me laugh.

My salary is split throughout the year, so I get paid in the summer. I thought they all did that nowadays..no?

My wife gets a paycheck every month of the year.

@SundayKittens Yes, many do, but it depends on their local school district contract.

I’m a T.A. and I have enjoyed this summer off…but I think that, in the future, I will try to find something to do (i.e. get an extra job) so I don’t go completely nuts.

I’ve taught before, but only college level and military courses. Working with children would probably drive me insane.

Getting a paycheck throughout the year doesn’t mean you’re paid for 12 months, it means you get ¾ of a paycheck every month, totaling 9 months pay. Thus for a true living wage many teachers must get a part time job every summer.

@GeorgeGee An excellent point that I hadn’t considered…..GIMME MORE MONEYS!

Yes it has it’s perks however,being always in fear of being laid off due to budget cut has it’s drawbacks.Albany is a joke with their state budget always late at the children’s programs expense.

Also summers aren’t always spent lounging around due,to“No CHILD LEFT BEHIND”,and teachers having to take their summers in school themselves to catch up with the constantantly new changing curriculum!