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Originally posted by: Angeline
"Despite raises, Mississippi teacher pay still almost the lowest in the nation.  How long until the Klumbs and Thames of the K-12 world tell teachers to quit griping and do "an honest days work for honest pay"?

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Very good point. I'm getting weary of hearing uninformed persons screaming about college professors not putting in an honest days work for a honest days pay. If the typical college professor actually "worked to contract" (e.g., maintained the traditional 8 AM to 5 PM hours), the taxpayer would get far less for its money than is currently the case. In has been my experience that college professors, for the most part, maintain a much more rigorous work ethic than a simplistic 8 to 5 effort. They ". . . work until the work gets done," even when that means working late at night, on weekends, and on holidays. Even when they are not on campus working, they are frequently at home working on university business. Pity the poor university whose faculty only "works to contract." If the uninformed persist with this "honest days work for an honest days pay, work to contract" model, what say ye about overtime? Perhaps in the lumber industry, Fred, but not in academics.