@Jay Jay your comments here show your ignorance about what a teachers job actually entails and how much they make. Teachers work much more then 32-35 hours per week. They often come in early and stay late or work during their lunches to help students who need extra help. Many also spend time helping with activities like coaching sports or other extra-curricular activities. They also spend countless hours preparing lessons, marking, report cards and other such activities in the evenings and weekends. Also teaching can be an extremely mentally stressful job having to deal with difficult students and often their parents who like yourself don't understand or respect teachers and their work to its full extent. Yes teachers have great holiday time but many spend the first part of this de-stressing from their year and then some of it planning and preparing for next. Lastly I am not sure where you get your numbers but a starting teacher gets under 60,000 a year and thats with a raise they just received this year and no teacher even at their max 100,000 not that you would even think of this but those figures include people with their masters.