Subject: Re: Volunteer Coordinator Newsgroups: bit.listserv.museum-l References: <[log in to unmask]> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] 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