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Summertime and Teachers Have It Easy

By John Norton

The catfish are jumping, the cotton is high, and teachers everywhere are spreading towels on the beach and by the pool, popping the seals on fresh bottles of SPF 30.

Right.

If that first paragraph sounded credible to you, you’re not a teacher, the spouse of a teacher, or a teacher’s summer employer. While it’s true that most teachers take time off in the summer, so do most Americans. But the misapprehension that teachers enjoy three months of leisurely bliss was likely conjured by parties eager to keep a lid...