Home financing ever possible? Probably not!

Even though this is pretty off-topic:

I can't stand the teacher bashing anymore either. My partner is also a member of the teaching staff and in our circle of colleagues, 9 out of 10 are really very dedicated and, contrary to widespread prejudices, are NOT!!! already home chilling at 12:30. On the contrary: I am always disappointed myself when she tells me that during the 6-week summer vacation we can only go away for about 3-4 weeks because various preparations and coordination meetings are already taking place. The long-standing cliché of 16 weeks of vacation per year is total envy nonsense from 30 years ago. The workload and the demand for adapted teaching materials have also increased a lot!

Copies and books are paid for from their own budget. So much for the state paying for everything! The profession is by far not as attractive as it used to be and already discourages young people.

Now I also have to share my teaching experiences... Sister is a teacher, ex-husband is a teacher, other friends/acquaintances as well. My conclusion: Mostly the younger teachers are the dedicated ones, especially the employed teachers, because they are still hoping for lifetime tenure and want to present themselves well accordingly. Consequently, the teachers who take home significantly less net income actually work the most. And on the subject of holidays... Well, you really don't have to pretend that teachers don't have it so good. Yes, much of the shorter holidays is taken up by grading, etc., but maybe one week is worked during the summer holidays, if at all. There are also bridge days and such, where everyone else has to take extra time off. Especially with children, having a teacher as a parent is an absolute luxury.

Copies and books are paid for from the personal budget.

For copies, we have a limit of 1,500 per half year or so. School books have to be bought yourself. As a teacher, you get them at a discount from the publisher, still weird. Small materials for students are bought by oneself anyway, because writing an application for that? It adds up, but doesn’t make you poor. But the best are class trips, which depending on the state of the funds have to be paid for yourself, even though they are official business trips. I would really like to see the free employer who tries that. It’s already cheeky in my opinion.

Now I also have to share my teaching experiences... My sister is a teacher, my ex-husband is a teacher, and other friends/acquaintances are as well. My conclusion: Usually, the younger teachers are the more committed ones, especially the employed teachers, because they still hope for civil servant status and want to present themselves accordingly. Consequently, the teachers who have significantly less net income actually work the most. And about the topic of holidays... Well, you really don’t have to pretend that teachers don’t have it that good. Yes, a lot of the shorter holidays are spent catching up on grading and such, but during the summer holidays, maybe one week is worked, if at all. Then there are also bridge days and such, when everyone else has to take extra time off. Especially with children, having a teacher as a parent is an absolute luxury.

There are also many employed teachers who will never become civil servants and do the same job for less net pay and less pension. Experience shows they do just as well. Money is not the cure-all motivator for everything. I consider it unthinkable to work “only” one week during the summer holidays at comprehensive schools. It simply doesn’t work. I explained why. It can be different in other types of schools. This is not a complaint, I chose it voluntarily.

This "payment" during class trips, holiday camps, etc., is really cheeky. In youth welfare, you get paid a maximum of 11 hours daily; for an overnight stay in the kindergarten, there is only a small token (which is why we also do not offer it... everyone in the team agrees on this).

I love how in this forum there is regularly civil servant bashing with a special focus on teachers. I am not one, and that is a very good thing.

Not even all the horses in the world could get me into this system. Everything about this job is terrible. The equipment, the workplaces, and especially the teachers' lounge. In our "open-plan office," people complain when there are 10 employees sitting between partitions with their own desks and chairs – that you can’t concentrate. In this teachers' lounge, 100 teachers have to sit during breaks and quickly gather their materials for the next lesson.

If the teachers were pigs, the veterinary office would intervene because it’s too crowded.

But the teachers who want to do the job do it for the children and the social responsibility. Those who do it for the civil servant status end up in the asylum. If it were really so great and overpaid, everyone would (want to) do it.

So the teachers with math + sports were always very happy about their job and let us know that they have the shortest working hours in the faculty

My wife’s school has a mini sports hall, which would be too small, for example, for a handball field, and no swimming pool. There, the teachers have to accompany all the children by bus and train across the city to the municipal swimming pool. Mercifully, the timetable teacher schedules (unpaid) free periods beforehand or places it at the beginning of the school day. Just keeping one’s flock together on this route alone is an absolute nightmare. There seems to be absolutely nothing relaxed about this.

Especially with children, a teacher as a parent is an absolute luxury

That, on the other hand, does seem to be relatively complementary.