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feel free to have an opinion, but stop trying to push it off as fact. You want to have an opinion on abortion, go ahead. But don’t talk about it like you know the ins and outs when its just an outside opinion.
You are entitled to have an opinion about everything. Unfortunately, your comments have proven that you are grossly misinformed about what the life of a teacher is really like in most frum schools in the united states (based on experience, info from articles and others and this thread).
To say the teachers repeat the same material every year so it gets easier is silly. Did you make that up based on personal experience with things you’ve done repeatedly or did you ever actually ask a bunch of teachers?
Does being off for 7 weeks in the summer, 8 days for sukkos and 10 for pesach REALLY equal working 3/4 of a year? Even your claim that other professions don’t do this is ignorant of the facts. I work in ONE school district where there are psychologists, speech therapists, OT’s, PTs, reading specialists and social workers who are NOT teachers who make $70k-$100k per year working 9,5 months with 12 days off during those months, two weeks off in December, one week off in April and 1 day off EACH month. So how many other professionals (real ones, not the whiny types) are there if you include the entire county, state or country who are earning nd working on a schedule that you said doesn’t exist?
I’m sorry you were hurt, I really am. Life in my house wasn’t easy financially either. In fact life for my kids isn’t always so easy, but you can’t mow down the good with the bad, and you can’t condemn the whole population 10, or 20 years later.