PartTime wrote:
Teaching is a part time job. 9 months a year, 6-7hours a day, 5 days a week with lots of teacher planning days, every holiday imaginable including 2 weeks at Christmas. A full time job is 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year with 2 weeks vacation.
It is a very rare individual who can hold down a real full time job and run under 2:30 for a Marathon.
I agree that it is very rare for a male teacher to run under 2:30. I do know several male MDs who have done so.
Except for elementary and junior high school teachers and non-science (yes that includes the repetitive math courses) it is not possible to teach lab science courses (such as Biology, AP Biology, Anatomy and Physiology etc) and still have time to train at a high level.
High Schools have at least 150 students per teacher (multiple sections and grades) and they have to prepare, teach, prep labs, create exams and grade everything (not graded = not performed in a HS students mind)
The "transparent grading" programs on the Internet mean that all parents are looking, every day, at all grades and notations from the teacher about their student. If a homework assignment, a quiz or a test isn't immediately graded and in the on line program with the great grade the parent wants: HELL is to be paid.
I got more sleep as the mother of a newborn than I ever did as a high school science teacher....
But, even though I had been an elite female marathoner in the days before there was an Women's Olympic Marathon (my time was among those included in setting the 1984 trials time) or Title Nine, I got at least as much out of teaching HS Science as I did out of my running which I continue today at 62. How much do 2:11 Marathoners make even today?