Subject: Re: Volunteer Coordinator
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Frank E. Thomson, III ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: Extremely long sigh.... I have a limited amount of sympathy for public =
: school teachers. =20
...
: They have to keep up to date in their field, but there are a lot of =
: grants available to underwrite this.

... the comment I made was not about money. It was about work. The grant
does not do the work.

: School teachers work hard, but do they work harder than anyone else? Do =
: they worker harder than firefighters? nurses? police? garbage disposal? =
... from my experience as a teacher, nurses's aide and education specialist
in a museum, I'd hazard a yes.
Teaching was one place where I could not get to the bathroom, chat with a
colleague or anyone else, or use the phone during an entire work day. The
other jobs had SOME downtime somewhere.

: or lowly curators?  I have worked thirty hour days.  I have walked =
                                    ^^^^^^
Well, maybe your math teachers didn't work very hard.

BTW, what are those funny numbers in your post?

Cathy