I Am Fascinated By Human Behavior

My mother and two of my cousins were and are elementary school teachers. My mother was a substitute teacher, and worked most often as what they call a "permanent sub". She would take over the classes of pregnant school teachers, allowing the pregnant teacher to have a lot of time with her baby. After working for a few years, my mother announced that she could no longer sub for the sixth grade, because the kids were just too awful. The grade level kept going down for which she would agree to sub.

My mother did not teach in order to have the summer off. She taught because in her time there were very few respectable jobs available to women, and teaching was one of them. She was NOT a good teacher. Her nickname was "Mrs Freeze" because she would march into the classroom like a Nazi and yell, "FREEZE!!!" For that reason she was always called in to sub difficult classrooms.

One of my favorite teachers in high school said he became a teacher because he could get free art supplies. (He was an accomplished painter)

"All the time off"? You need to get a teacher's perspective on all that "free vacation" they have.