I went to university for 6 years to earn 2 degrees to become a teacher. I went through the ringer, as many CBE teachers do, of being evaluated and having reports written to ensure my teaching skills meet the teaching quality standards of the province, spent years in a temporary contract followed by a probationary contract and then finally a permanent contract. I work well over 50 hours a week to do my job properly. Are there teachers who don’t do that? Absolutely. There are people like that in every profession. We don’t get ‘10 weeks vacation’, we get paid appropriately for doing an average of 200 days of teaching a year, it’s just that most teachers choose to have their 10 months of pay spread out over 12 for financial planning reasons. I pay almost $1000 a month between union dues and pension contributions, and they in turn bust their asses ensuring we have working conditions we deserve and a stable retirement. Kick rocks buddy.