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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stewartglock" data-source="post: 1330527" data-attributes="member: 10353">You have obviously never worked as a teacher or been close to someone who was a teacher.  Those 180 days are days that the children are at school.  Teachers are still required to go in on "professional days", they typically pull a 14-15 hour day during parent teacher conferences and most teachers are putting in more time than just the 6-7 hours that the students are at school.I used to have your opinion until I married a teacher and saw just how much time our teachers put into their jobs.  Plus, I know I could not put up with ignorant administration who will throw you under the bus before you know it, parents that think you should be raising their children for them because they want to be their child's friend and not their parent, and kids who have no respect for anyone, for that kind of money.Regardless, I will still be voting NO for SQ744 because we are leaving WAY too much to be determined by our legislature, like where the money is coming from and who exactly it is going to, which does not give me warm fuzzies.  If the question outlined how they would get the money and show that it would actually go to teachers' salaries, I would be thinking about it.</blockquote>