Three months off is not a “few weeks”. Good lord. What school district are you referencing where teachers are forced to work every day during the summer?
Yes, they don’t get paid for not working, but can usually have their employer stretch the 9 month salary to cover all 12.
There are a lot of reasons I wouldn’t want to be a modern American teacher, but the time-off schedule is not one of them.
Note that I never claimed teachers were forced to work every day of the summer. I said “a few weeks” because for the teachers I know scheduling a vacation ends up being a couple of weeks where they have a contiguous free stretch between the end of school in June (usually a week after students), staff meetings and trainings, professional development, and planning for the school year which begins in August. No, they aren’t working every day of that period but it’s nowhere near as generous as people tend to describe it sounding like June 1st to September 1st.
Yes, they don’t get paid for not working, but can usually have their employer stretch the 9 month salary to cover all 12.
There are a lot of reasons I wouldn’t want to be a modern American teacher, but the time-off schedule is not one of them.