Oh Man, Kyle...don't get my dander up. I AM a public school TEACHER...and I work a contracted 183 days, but in reality I work year-round. I often think about logging my hours just to see and I am sure I am not exaggerating when I say I work the equivalent of a 40+ hour work week year round just during the school year alone. The eight-hour (or 6 hour) or whatever work day you think is true really turns out to be at least a 10 hour work day, no chance to eat lunch most days, never time to go to the bathroom, don't dare do anything personal during the work day, be everything to everyone type of job. And ya know what? I LOVE IT! :) I just want to make non-educator folks aware that the job is far from the cushy job some corporate folks think it is. I got an email awhile back about a "new survivor" show relating to this topic. I will send it to the list if I have it here. It is actually one of those forwarded messages that is worth reading repeatedly - for teachers it is a good laugh, for others, a wake-up call! Linda