Healthy quantities of vacation time is one of the reasons I'm still in public education after 15 years.
Teaching in a public school isn't the easiest job in the world (nor the hardest, probably), and not everyone has the personality for it, but I really believe that having a lot of time off contributes to my mental / emotional / physical health and helps me to be an excellent teacher when I am working.
In my district, we get one week off around Thanksgiving, two weeks around Christmas, one week around Spring Break, and ten weeks off in the summer. Plus most of the state and national holidays.
I know people often suggest that the U.S. should move to a year-round school year, but I'm not sure the ills in public education would be solved by more days in the classroom.
Teaching in a public school isn't the easiest job in the world (nor the hardest, probably), and not everyone has the personality for it, but I really believe that having a lot of time off contributes to my mental / emotional / physical health and helps me to be an excellent teacher when I am working.
In my district, we get one week off around Thanksgiving, two weeks around Christmas, one week around Spring Break, and ten weeks off in the summer. Plus most of the state and national holidays.
I know people often suggest that the U.S. should move to a year-round school year, but I'm not sure the ills in public education would be solved by more days in the classroom.