Should taxpayer dollars be used to fund private education?

[DanaC]

Also, those figures are for nine months work.

I doubt it. Most teachers I know do so much work from home that if you averaged it out to an hourly or weekly rate of work it would be way more than 9 months work. Bear in mind also, that just because the schools close for 9 months, does not mean that teachers stop working for the other three. Most teachers I know do a lot of work during the holidays: administration type work; learner progress charts; marking work; writing lesson plans; engaging in additional training to keep up to date; escorting classes of children on school camping trips etc.