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I put in more hours "off the clock" than I care to count and it's part of my job description, just like teaching (and being a police officer). A good portion of my responsibility is training adults in safety and how not to get killed/maimed doing their jobs- try teaching grown men who think they know everything (and I can’t call a School Resource Officer, a vice principal or parents to complain, either). Lawyers and therapists can get away with clocking every minute they work, and that's about it.

I don't get to go home to my own bed every night, and I don't get every weekend, holiday and vacation day off and get paid for the full year (and neither do you). When my phone rings at 3AM, it isn't some maladjusted or poorly-parented twit crank-calling me, it's someone asking how to proceed with a job safely or someone needing an ambulance or life flight.

While in the service (military police), I trained troops in skills to keep them alive on the battlefield, and it wasn't indoors in comfort from 8 to 2:30. I know exactly what they do, and I'm tired of listening to adults fuss about how tough they have it. If they're too weak-willed to handle the job, they should find a new one. If they don't want to do the work at home, they can stay at the school to finish it- their choice.

One thing I didn't learn from teachers is my work ethic.

Don’t you know that your property value is tied directly to teachers’ salaries? It doesn’t bother you that Warwick values your house higher than what you paid for it, and that was before the slump that knocked $50K off the value? Do you honestly agree that your home is/was valued at (not worth) that much more so that teachers can hold the system hostage for more of your hard-earned money? The real estate market was so inflated before the post-0bama adjustment that things are only now becoming stabilized, and probably not for long.

You’re a fool if you think that they would switch jobs with you if given the opportunity, so spare me the self-righteous indignation if I believe that they’re over-privileged whiners.

That being said, just know that your opinion of me means nothing. I'm smarter and have a better job, you insult me; if I pumped gas, you'd say I was jealous. I know the game- things haven't changed much intellectually for you since middle school, have they? Interesting to see how you leap to their defense, though- two peas in a pod.

Yep, there is a term- I see you taught yourself how to Google, because there was no internet when you graduated from high school.

You should proofread your own posts, by the way.