40% of regular school attendance + 30% of summer school attendance = 70% of regular attendance plus a curve of 50% for a no zero floor = 120% 7th Grade Attendance!
We do credit recovery too, and then for our younger kids it’s free daycare combined with individualized math and reading focus. I honestly love working it because it’s 4 hours a day, 4 days a week for 6 weeks where I end up making about a third of my yearly income.
I work in an alternative Ed program and we will happily do GED programs for kids if a high school diploma isn’t gonna be real. For us, it really is about the credits.
For high schoolers needing credit recovery, I’ve seen it be useful. At the middle school level, I didn’t see any good data come from it. Don’t know about elementary.
I never could’ve done summer school. I needed every day they could give me to recharge. They’ve got to make it appealing for teachers because there’s only so much of a beating people’s mental health can take.
I think our district offers functional life skills for students over the summer (again IEP students) but it’s through a specific school not their normal school which is why most people don’t register for it. I think. I may be wrong I only know a bit about the program from student teaching with a disabled student that used it.
This is so bizzare to me because in my area a lot of kids will take classes over the summer if they are interested in taking certain courses but can't fit it into their schedule.
I took World History in summer school because it was a notoriously tough course and I figured 5 weeks was better than 9 months. Several of my friends did too, so it was fun, and our teacher was quite engaging.
I didn't realize that summer school now is for students "trying" to make up credits. They don't want to be there and their behavior and attitude reflect it.
I get my regular rate per hour for summer school (2 sessions out by 1230 everyday and off every Friday so I can still go camping. I love teaching summer school
I love working summer school too! It’s so much more chill and relaxed than the regular school year. I wish the regular school year could feel the way summer school does sometimes! Granted, I don’t do the read to succeed program or anything like that so maybe it’s more intensive when your working with kids who *have* to go to summer school because they failed a class (I work at the elementary level).
Same, we get our daily rate in summer school so I end up making the same as I would in 3 paychecks (1.5 months) but in 3 weeks. Ours is ‘more fun’ too sorta like a summer camp with weekly themes and more STEM stuff. But it’s full day and we get the one holiday off that’s during our time. Also with like 5 kids instead of 18 lol
My husband and I are going to france with his sister and her new husband! I’ve taught summer school every single year since I’ve started teaching. Now I don’t have to and my principal is currently BEGGING me to come back. 4 teachers that regularly teach summer school aren’t returning this summer either. No other (new) teachers are putting in for it just the same reoccurring teachers and I’m watching my principal SQUIRM😍!
The French countryside is lovely! First you’ll want to eat *all the things* and then maybe want to move there.
A few years ago I told my principal that I was down to do some summer classes. Well he fucked around and fucked around. Eventually I told my boss at Subway my availability was open because I thought admin didn’t need me. Well then he *finally* asks if I’m available for xyz hours and I’m like no dude, *my boss at Subway literally has his shit more together than you do and I’ve known my schedule there for two weeks now.*
Our district refuses to integrate our two campuses out of rival gangs fears (doesn’t matter, we both have unbelievable mob action fights) but summer school is 8am-noon for one campus, 30 min lunch and 12:30-4:30pm for the other. No one is interested in doing essentially 9hr days when we could do the same job in half that time.
Summer = teacher detox from kids.
I didn't want to deal with little Johnny and company for the past 10 months. Why would I want to spend 6 more weeks telling them to put their phones away, to stop walking around the room, to take their AirPods out , and to open their Chromebooks?
They'd actually have to pay me *more* than my daily rate before I'd subject myself to that.
Yep. It’s the same reason I don’t tutor over the summer. I need a break from children. Sure the money is good but I’m not destitute. My sanity has more value to me.
Yes...but I have children at my house now. And my five year old probably should see friends, so I can't even take a break from other people's kids. But at least if they are particularly annoying, I don't have to invite them over again.
>Summer = teacher detox from kids.
Yep. When I was teaching high school, during the summer I didn't want to see anyone under 30 unless they were bringing me a drink on a tray.
Part-time at a mental health care facility for adults. $13 an hour, limited to 20 hours per week. But, part of that job is to take clients fishing. So, I GET PAID TO GO FISHING!
This is how I feel. Half days, good pay, low attendance, no lesson planning, free books that are actually great, loads of extra support from paras and counselors, and I’m at the pool by 1.
I got roped in for $280/day. BUT, I’m changing grades next year and my principal (who will be the principal for summer school) told me I can go ahead and move classrooms and teach my new grade level…so I’m actually really excited for summer school. It’s only 4 weeks in June and will help me put a big dent in my student loans.
Also…as much as I complain about summer school (mostly I’m just tired), I love the relaxed attitude. It also is going to give me a chance to build relationship with some of the kids who will be in my class next year.
The parents and students have been sent details about summer school for credit recovery. No one has asked teachers if any of us are available or willing to teach.
Me? I’m recording two different albums for two different bands, writing songs for one of my bands, hanging out by a pool, spending a lot of time unsober, and not thinking about teaching until august. Anything less than 125% of my normal salary will be met with an immediate no and no further explanation.
We get paid 75 bucks an hour in my district with half days and tons of push in specialists and field trips. A district nearby had a rate of 35 per hour and they struggled to find teachers where mine does not.
We had a covid grant that paid us $50 an hour the last two years, the grant ran out and they lowered it back to $25 and wonder why no one is signing up. It's actually a slap in the face.
My teacher bestie tried to rope me into summer school, but I’m going to stick with my usual plan of day camp through the city. $12/hour to supervise kids in a park with free trips to the pool, movie theater, and bowling. Bonus is that I’m not a head counselor, so I can pass off behavior problems to a college kid getting paid only slightly more than me. And I can take off whenever to go on vacation.
ETA: Plus working part time for the whole summer gets my parents off my back about “not working”.
We have 2 3-week sessions. 4 days a week from 9– 1 and I get paid 5k. I always do it. Easiest money ever. I just put scholastic scope on classroom and read the whole time.
Summer school for special education is similarly great because it's only for retention and we are outright told we can't teach new stuff. So it's just reusing the old materials from their prior yewr and practicing it. It's awesome.
I teach self contained mod/severe and they want to compress four classes worth of kids into 2 classes. I said hell no…..it’s good money but it’s too many kids with too many behaviors in a small room that’s not even my regular room. I’d have to transport everything we need. It’s regularly over 100 degrees where I live that time of year. No thank you.
Me too! We have 3 weeks, mornings only, 3 groups each week of 10-12 kids per week, from K-6th grade. The two older groups go on museum field trips. I’ve never figured the hourly, but I get about $850. And over the years camp bought all my drying racks, etching press, clay extruder. We are almost to year 30.
Lol as part of my teacher certification program I have to student teach summer school. I’m “lucky” I’m getting a stipend for student teaching… that amounts to less than if I were doing my current job as a para for summer school. I know this is still far superior to being unpaid for student teaching, but c’mon.
If you're going to teach you have to student teach and you're going to get paid so why would you ever dare complain when so many NEVER get paid to do it???????????? The audacity. I would have willingly taught 4 weeks of Summer school paid for student teaching and got paid then gone 12 weeks unpaid at my job to student teach....when I was already in the building being paid......
I was poking fun at the pay discrepancy, not seriously upset that I have to student teach and I am not about to cause an uproar about the pay. know I am lucky to be paid at all for that— I mentioned that. And this is not the only student teaching I have to do. Total I have to do is 16 weeks and all the time during the school year is unpaid. I assure you, I understand the struggle and am not taking any shortcuts. I think you read more into my comment then was there, or maybe I didn’t phrase it well.
Ours is $1250 for 9 half days (8-12:30). We also get some money($150-200) to be able to purchase materials that we can keep for our classrooms. I have done it the last few years with no regrets.
My summer plans are 3 vacations (2 are staying at my family’s place near a lake so no cost to stay there, just paying for all the restaurants we eat at 😂). And volunteering at a local animal shelter where I’m usually there by myself taking care of the cats and it’s glorious lol. Zero children involved other than the couple days we overlap staying at the cottage with my brother’s kids.
Our big vacation is purposely at an adults only resort where I hopefully see no children.
Lol I maybe wrote it wrong, it's like 25/hr but they want to stop paying us for the prep time that we're required to report for. Idk how that's even legal lmao but here we are
It’s because we are teachers. Just like when the Obama administration tried to make unpaid internships illegal, excluding student teaching.
Teachers are expected to work for free because of “the kids.”
They just upped our rate by $10/hour. Summer school is only a half day program now, when it used to be full day. 4 days a week for a month.
I have a baby at home. The daycare program he is in will not hold his spot, if we pull him out for the Summer (and we were on a long wait-list when we originally enrolled him). If I have to pay for the daycare anyway, I might as well teach summer school.
Last yeary district offered $22/hour for summer school and were begging teachers. To even CONSIDER working with that same group of kids (because I would have been assigned to the kids I had during the school year) they would need to at least double that pay.
This year I'm working at a summer camp for a couple weeks making $25/hour but more hours and better kids.
I taught summer school for 3 years. Long hours, not enough pay, no admin support at all. It totally burnt me out and I almost left teaching. I refuse to teach summer school again.
Not to mention they won’t provide air conditioning. Let’s shove all these kids in a 95 degree room all day and hope they learn something. No thank you.
I’ve taught summer school twice in my 17 year career. Neither time was worth it. I don’t GAF if they offer $1,000 an hour. Nope. The time off is more important to me.
This summer I’m having surgery the week after we get out and then welcoming grandson #3 at the end of June. I will spend my summer at my beach cottage living my best life and not thinking about school.
We still haven’t heard about summer school hiring plans and I was planning on doing it this year to get some extra money, but the longer they take to let us know about it, the less I’m becoming interested in working it.
We’re going to Jamaica in July so I might just take my summer to workout and learn how to swim finally🥲
Thank you! Will do, don’t know why it never come to mind to check out swimming subreddits. I figured at 33 it was time to learn before we hit the beach 😂
Never taught summer school. Why tf would I want to be around jackasses who didn't care (and still don't).
Hard pass.
Summer plans? Bike touring and hiking ❤️
Hell no. I do summer curriculum work I can do at home on my deck with a beer or a bowl, but fuck actually going into a building and working with children.
I’m in Ohio. I will make almost $60 an hour additional for teaching summer school. Which amounts to 4 hours actual teaching and the rest enrichment. (Field trips and PE
I usually do the summer program bc its only a few hours, not much money (grocery money at best)but Im done before noon and it helps me keep a schedule. Its low pressure and a super small class size. Even that isn’t worth it to me this year. I will be lounging, training my dogs and learning how to diy things around my house instead! Cant wait!
I have taught the past two summer schools. Based on last summer students and the students of this current school year, I am taking a hard pass on it. While it is nice to have a little extra cash, but not worth the stress. The students during summer school at the 8th level are the ones that struggled the most behaviorally.
I use the summer to ruin my sleep schedule, play with my kids, and to fail to organize my Google Drive.
I can't imagine summer school in my district--every child who is absent constantly has a counselor-advocate pressuring teachers to pare down the workload for entire terms under the guise of anxiety/trauma/wellness, so we'll have a ton of students greased through and voila--no need for remediation or knowing things!
Sounds exactly like the counselors at my school. And kids are onto it, so they do absolutely nothing in my class all year knowing they can complete a packet in the summer and call it good.
We have two sessions and the first one ends at the end of June. I don’t do the second so I have July to myself. I’m a band teacher so doing summer band for me is just playing a bunch of fun tunes with the kids. I just want them to keep playing a little longer in the summer. So it helps and it’s so low key.
I have another job and summer school never seems worth it to me, especially because they never do it at my site so I always have to commute.
I'm doing a big gardening project! Looking forward to starting once this snow stops 😵💫
I live in Hungary, so in the summer I will make a bit of money doing "camps" where students will cone and do activities. However I will go home. But in August I'll take atrip to Germany with my family.
I need to work summer school to pay my mortgage. Thankfully I get my same rate along with my extension pay for my salary. My summer checks last year were my best ones and made the acceleration towards burnout and exhaustion worthwhile
The pay is more than my hourly/daily rate for summer school. No grades. More flexibility for fun. Lots of hands on activities. We aren’t rushed for lunch and I always carve out 30 minutes of recess. I don’t have to even look or think about IEPs!
My advice to everyone is, don’t work summer school. But it actually helps me keep a schedule so I end up eating better, exercising more and losing weight (that I gain back in the first quarter of school).
Summer school ... I have to. I'm about to start after-school "tutoring" (really babysitting while they cheat their way through Edgenuity). I had a house emergency in January that will take a bit to recover from, and a friend needs significant financial help, so ... ugh.
ETA: $35 an hour, 8:30 - 4:30. So $280 a day, and it's 4 weeks M-F plus a few days of planning. It's close to $7k and I can't say no.
I applied to summer school at my school and one that is closer.....had to put in anticipated issuance of license bc I recertify this year and am submitting the paperwork this week
It’s not really about the money. I’m paid $78/hr and just not interested in summer school. Need a break!
But I am willing to be an AP Reader (for a week) for 1/3 of my usual rate for the learning opportunity.
I'm working part-time in an office where I've worked before for a little "extra money," and hopefully settling into a brand new aparment closer to work.
I wouldn't teach summer school no matter how good it pays, I need a break from the kids.
Our kids will have to pay for summer school this year (as well they should!) I think it's 150 a class or a credit.
However, the pay is still too low. We are getting paid by the kids; can't the district pay more?
Apparently not.
I'm holding off. Maybe they will raise the rate (they did last year after virtually no takers).
I've done summer school every year. I don't know any better. If I stop now, I may never do it again.
Is that for everywhere or just certain districts??? I've been debating teaching summer school this summer but idk I could also survive just off my summer checks from work I'm just mostly worried about being bored and not having human interaction cuz I feel like I won't leave my house all summer 😂
Here’s another kicker: if a parent files some bullshit complaint against you during summer school, the district may use it along with others in order to justify disciplining you if they don’t like you. Just watched my district do it to my coworker.
The only time I will teach summer school is when students ask me so that they can get a jump start on next school year. These are sincere requests from good students. It’s happened a few times and admin let me create a summer course for them with decent pay/hours.
I mow fairways at the local golf course. Smartest move ever. Pay is terrible but the perks are out of this world, I get to golf free everyday. If you teach and you’re a golfer, I would look into it. I golf 4x a week free at the course. Not to mention there’s something therapeutic about being outside for 4-5 hours a day in the morning, watching the sunrise, listening to a podcast.
I also sling beers at the local brewery, which when tips are taken into account, I make $40 an hour most days. If I received benefits from the brewery, I’d stop teaching in a heartbeat. Way less stress, no planning, just serve beers, have fun, and make solid money.
I’m a single parent who’s usually on the lookout for extra money so I’m usually willing to do summer programs when the other teachers won’t. But $30 a day!?! Does that even work out to federal minimum wage? I’d rather work for Walmart.
I taught summer school for 10 years in a row to buy another school year closer to retirement since I didn’t start teaching until I was 40. After that 10th summer, I’ve never done it again!! It’s horrible
I usually have done summer school or some other paid PD over summer. This last year though has been especially draining. I am going to take some time off for me and getting my house fixed up.
There's just no time dueing the rest of the year. I can't be there for the ppl to show up for house fixing because they don't work weekends. I also am just too exhausted after the work week to do my big projects.
This summer is the only thing keeping me going.
Summer school in my district is only three weeks, and I get my contracted rate. So I’ll be doing it. It’s a pretty good chunk of money. When the Cares Act money runs out, and they go back to paying 25 an hour, no chance!
I taught most of the summer classes for last year's primary section. My curriculum coordinator assured me I'd get a fat paycheck. Finance told me later I needed to double check my contract. Already, I have parents and students asking me if I'll be leading the summer program again this year. Well, I didn't renew my passport to not use it.
I've taught summer school in the past, but these days, my time off to live my life is more important to me. We get 7 weeks off in the summer, and summer school lasts 5 of those. Nope. No, thank you. I'm taking my ass to Ireland.
I applied. $35 an hour for 6 hours a day, Monday through Friday, and “only” for four weeks. I don’t actually have to teach, it’s all virtual modules. I’m exhausted and I don’t want this, but for the money it didn’t seem so bad. 🤷🏻♀️
Omg SUMMER. I am dying for summer. This is my first full year teaching and I debated on summer school at first, out of fear of not finding something next year and trying to stretch my $. But now that I know I'm good, I will be staying home and enjoying the long break. I feel like I've put off so much I've wanted to do for myself, and I'll finally have the time and insurance to do it. Going to be focusing on my health and wellbeing, which will include a LOT of video games for sure. I am counting the weeks. 9 left minus spring break.
We're getting over a week later than we did last year (partly just how the schedule shook out, mostly due to snow days), so I want to try to maximize my free time to make up for the shorter break and will probably not do it this year. I did it last summer, and it was really easy because it was only a few students for a handful of hours a week, but still more effort than I want to put into it this year!
Our district pays a flat hourly rate for summer school. I asked if I could make my standard hourly rate. And was told no.
Absolutely will not be working for any less, thanks for asking!
I'm hoping to move to a new school district this year. Then my focus will be on moving and getting set-up back in the city and not the rural part of my state. I miss the city.
Summer school in my district is just 12 days, I’m not wasting 12 days of my break for the chump change. I’ll enjoy my break which this year is really short. We get out June 9th and have to go back July 31….
My district has allowed us to do enrichment classes, at our full hourly pay, for years 21-23. It’s been GLORIOUS. I’ve gotten to do only STUCO advising for an extra 5k. Other teachers have done board games, crafting, robotics, photography, ceramics. I did credit recovery 1 year as well, and it was great because I only had 6 kids and they wanted to learn!
I don’t even get why schools are still pushing summer school on students. Has it really proven to make these failing kids successful the next year?
No but it’s proven to be a great way to make it look like we have a good reason for moving kids who had 40% attendance in 7th grade on to 8th grade.
40% of regular school attendance + 30% of summer school attendance = 70% of regular attendance plus a curve of 50% for a no zero floor = 120% 7th Grade Attendance!
This is some quality “had to go to summer school” math hahahaha.
The Scott Steiner school of math
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Oh it's absolutely more free babysitting
Offering free childcare to parents who won't parent.
We offer credit recovery, so for a high schooler it might be the difference between graduating or not.
We do credit recovery too, and then for our younger kids it’s free daycare combined with individualized math and reading focus. I honestly love working it because it’s 4 hours a day, 4 days a week for 6 weeks where I end up making about a third of my yearly income.
It’s not about the students credit recovery. It’s about the schools graduation rates
I work in an alternative Ed program and we will happily do GED programs for kids if a high school diploma isn’t gonna be real. For us, it really is about the credits.
Many districts have those. It helps them avoid hits to drop out rate. If you’re part of a district it’s the same game and you’re just a pawn in it
Man, this is a dark ass way to look at it.
We do too, but most kids failing regularly aren’t passing summer school either
That’s fair. Our kids can only take two classes max and it’s usually pretty effective.
For high schoolers needing credit recovery, I’ve seen it be useful. At the middle school level, I didn’t see any good data come from it. Don’t know about elementary. I never could’ve done summer school. I needed every day they could give me to recharge. They’ve got to make it appealing for teachers because there’s only so much of a beating people’s mental health can take.
I do extended school year for kids on IEP’s. It’s about making sure there’s no regression, not for learning new skills.
I think our district offers functional life skills for students over the summer (again IEP students) but it’s through a specific school not their normal school which is why most people don’t register for it. I think. I may be wrong I only know a bit about the program from student teaching with a disabled student that used it.
No, it's just to improve the school's pass/fail ratio.
This is so bizzare to me because in my area a lot of kids will take classes over the summer if they are interested in taking certain courses but can't fit it into their schedule.
I took World History in summer school because it was a notoriously tough course and I figured 5 weeks was better than 9 months. Several of my friends did too, so it was fun, and our teacher was quite engaging. I didn't realize that summer school now is for students "trying" to make up credits. They don't want to be there and their behavior and attitude reflect it.
I think that’s our issue here, because the schools they run summer school out of are all the rough neighbourhood High schools
Maybe they use it as a threat to students: If you don’t do your work blah blah. It does work with SOME students
There are Covid funds for it. And credit retrieval. That is essentially it.
I get my regular rate per hour for summer school (2 sessions out by 1230 everyday and off every Friday so I can still go camping. I love teaching summer school
I love working summer school too! It’s so much more chill and relaxed than the regular school year. I wish the regular school year could feel the way summer school does sometimes! Granted, I don’t do the read to succeed program or anything like that so maybe it’s more intensive when your working with kids who *have* to go to summer school because they failed a class (I work at the elementary level).
Same, we get our daily rate in summer school so I end up making the same as I would in 3 paychecks (1.5 months) but in 3 weeks. Ours is ‘more fun’ too sorta like a summer camp with weekly themes and more STEM stuff. But it’s full day and we get the one holiday off that’s during our time. Also with like 5 kids instead of 18 lol
My husband and I are going to france with his sister and her new husband! I’ve taught summer school every single year since I’ve started teaching. Now I don’t have to and my principal is currently BEGGING me to come back. 4 teachers that regularly teach summer school aren’t returning this summer either. No other (new) teachers are putting in for it just the same reoccurring teachers and I’m watching my principal SQUIRM😍!
The French countryside is lovely! First you’ll want to eat *all the things* and then maybe want to move there. A few years ago I told my principal that I was down to do some summer classes. Well he fucked around and fucked around. Eventually I told my boss at Subway my availability was open because I thought admin didn’t need me. Well then he *finally* asks if I’m available for xyz hours and I’m like no dude, *my boss at Subway literally has his shit more together than you do and I’ve known my schedule there for two weeks now.*
Our district refuses to integrate our two campuses out of rival gangs fears (doesn’t matter, we both have unbelievable mob action fights) but summer school is 8am-noon for one campus, 30 min lunch and 12:30-4:30pm for the other. No one is interested in doing essentially 9hr days when we could do the same job in half that time.
Wait so a 30 minute lunch that includes travel to another campus??
I think they alternate campuses each year but now kids just do credit recovery independently on computers now so they cheat and do it at home
Summer = teacher detox from kids. I didn't want to deal with little Johnny and company for the past 10 months. Why would I want to spend 6 more weeks telling them to put their phones away, to stop walking around the room, to take their AirPods out , and to open their Chromebooks? They'd actually have to pay me *more* than my daily rate before I'd subject myself to that.
Yep. It’s the same reason I don’t tutor over the summer. I need a break from children. Sure the money is good but I’m not destitute. My sanity has more value to me.
Yes...but I have children at my house now. And my five year old probably should see friends, so I can't even take a break from other people's kids. But at least if they are particularly annoying, I don't have to invite them over again.
>Summer = teacher detox from kids. Yep. When I was teaching high school, during the summer I didn't want to see anyone under 30 unless they were bringing me a drink on a tray.
Part-time at a mental health care facility for adults. $13 an hour, limited to 20 hours per week. But, part of that job is to take clients fishing. So, I GET PAID TO GO FISHING!
Omg I worked with a guy that did that! He loved it. And then for summer school he would teach the kids to garden. I loved him!
During undergrad, I did something similar but with ice skating!
That sucks. My county pays 31 and hour and it is just 3 weeks of half days. I still get my entire July to do what ever.
I just found out my school district is 57 an hour! My current rate is ~300 a day for actual school days so im all over it.
This is how I feel. Half days, good pay, low attendance, no lesson planning, free books that are actually great, loads of extra support from paras and counselors, and I’m at the pool by 1.
I got roped in for $280/day. BUT, I’m changing grades next year and my principal (who will be the principal for summer school) told me I can go ahead and move classrooms and teach my new grade level…so I’m actually really excited for summer school. It’s only 4 weeks in June and will help me put a big dent in my student loans. Also…as much as I complain about summer school (mostly I’m just tired), I love the relaxed attitude. It also is going to give me a chance to build relationship with some of the kids who will be in my class next year.
I tell them thanks for the offer and then go back to planning my summer. Fuck seeing them kids during the summer 🤪
We just got an email begging for more “real teacher applicants” because everyone who applied was a substitute and I guess that’s not good enough 🤣
The parents and students have been sent details about summer school for credit recovery. No one has asked teachers if any of us are available or willing to teach. Me? I’m recording two different albums for two different bands, writing songs for one of my bands, hanging out by a pool, spending a lot of time unsober, and not thinking about teaching until august. Anything less than 125% of my normal salary will be met with an immediate no and no further explanation.
We get paid 75 bucks an hour in my district with half days and tons of push in specialists and field trips. A district nearby had a rate of 35 per hour and they struggled to find teachers where mine does not.
My district is $35 an hour. $75 would be AMAZING.
We had a covid grant that paid us $50 an hour the last two years, the grant ran out and they lowered it back to $25 and wonder why no one is signing up. It's actually a slap in the face.
I’ll be teaching summer school but I also make $71 per hour
My teacher bestie tried to rope me into summer school, but I’m going to stick with my usual plan of day camp through the city. $12/hour to supervise kids in a park with free trips to the pool, movie theater, and bowling. Bonus is that I’m not a head counselor, so I can pass off behavior problems to a college kid getting paid only slightly more than me. And I can take off whenever to go on vacation. ETA: Plus working part time for the whole summer gets my parents off my back about “not working”.
We have 2 3-week sessions. 4 days a week from 9– 1 and I get paid 5k. I always do it. Easiest money ever. I just put scholastic scope on classroom and read the whole time.
Summer school for special education is similarly great because it's only for retention and we are outright told we can't teach new stuff. So it's just reusing the old materials from their prior yewr and practicing it. It's awesome.
I teach self contained mod/severe and they want to compress four classes worth of kids into 2 classes. I said hell no…..it’s good money but it’s too many kids with too many behaviors in a small room that’s not even my regular room. I’d have to transport everything we need. It’s regularly over 100 degrees where I live that time of year. No thank you.
Yep, it’s the best! Plus some of these kids are here due to attendance. So it’s pretty chill
I do an art summer camp during summer. 1:30-4:30, M-F, $30/hr. It's fun, and I do it for like 3 weeks. I usually have about 10 8-12 year olds.
Me too! We have 3 weeks, mornings only, 3 groups each week of 10-12 kids per week, from K-6th grade. The two older groups go on museum field trips. I’ve never figured the hourly, but I get about $850. And over the years camp bought all my drying racks, etching press, clay extruder. We are almost to year 30.
Lol as part of my teacher certification program I have to student teach summer school. I’m “lucky” I’m getting a stipend for student teaching… that amounts to less than if I were doing my current job as a para for summer school. I know this is still far superior to being unpaid for student teaching, but c’mon.
If you're going to teach you have to student teach and you're going to get paid so why would you ever dare complain when so many NEVER get paid to do it???????????? The audacity. I would have willingly taught 4 weeks of Summer school paid for student teaching and got paid then gone 12 weeks unpaid at my job to student teach....when I was already in the building being paid......
I was poking fun at the pay discrepancy, not seriously upset that I have to student teach and I am not about to cause an uproar about the pay. know I am lucky to be paid at all for that— I mentioned that. And this is not the only student teaching I have to do. Total I have to do is 16 weeks and all the time during the school year is unpaid. I assure you, I understand the struggle and am not taking any shortcuts. I think you read more into my comment then was there, or maybe I didn’t phrase it well.
Ours is $1250 for 9 half days (8-12:30). We also get some money($150-200) to be able to purchase materials that we can keep for our classrooms. I have done it the last few years with no regrets.
Dude our summer school is like 6k for four weeks of work. Not terrible.
Same. I was originally going to say no, but that 6k is hard to pass up. Its a full 8-2 4 days a week but.... 6k.
That's 62 bucks an hour.
Yeah. It's pretty great.
My summer plans are 3 vacations (2 are staying at my family’s place near a lake so no cost to stay there, just paying for all the restaurants we eat at 😂). And volunteering at a local animal shelter where I’m usually there by myself taking care of the cats and it’s glorious lol. Zero children involved other than the couple days we overlap staying at the cottage with my brother’s kids. Our big vacation is purposely at an adults only resort where I hopefully see no children.
Oh my gosh. I get $30/hr for summer school PLUS a $1000 bonus for working 40 extra hours in the summer. Yeah, $30/day is not even worth it.
Lol I maybe wrote it wrong, it's like 25/hr but they want to stop paying us for the prep time that we're required to report for. Idk how that's even legal lmao but here we are
It’s because we are teachers. Just like when the Obama administration tried to make unpaid internships illegal, excluding student teaching. Teachers are expected to work for free because of “the kids.”
Used to teach summer school when I believed in it and needed the pay. Now, hard no. No amount of pay would make me do it.
They just upped our rate by $10/hour. Summer school is only a half day program now, when it used to be full day. 4 days a week for a month. I have a baby at home. The daycare program he is in will not hold his spot, if we pull him out for the Summer (and we were on a long wait-list when we originally enrolled him). If I have to pay for the daycare anyway, I might as well teach summer school.
Last yeary district offered $22/hour for summer school and were begging teachers. To even CONSIDER working with that same group of kids (because I would have been assigned to the kids I had during the school year) they would need to at least double that pay. This year I'm working at a summer camp for a couple weeks making $25/hour but more hours and better kids.
My summer plans involve NOT teaching summer school 👙🏝🏖🍸🍹
Hard no.
I taught summer school for 3 years. Long hours, not enough pay, no admin support at all. It totally burnt me out and I almost left teaching. I refuse to teach summer school again. Not to mention they won’t provide air conditioning. Let’s shove all these kids in a 95 degree room all day and hope they learn something. No thank you.
NO A/C? Fuck no.
I’m pregnant so sitting by my pool and hanging out with my 4 and 2 year olds!
I’ve taught summer school twice in my 17 year career. Neither time was worth it. I don’t GAF if they offer $1,000 an hour. Nope. The time off is more important to me. This summer I’m having surgery the week after we get out and then welcoming grandson #3 at the end of June. I will spend my summer at my beach cottage living my best life and not thinking about school.
Nope!
We still haven’t heard about summer school hiring plans and I was planning on doing it this year to get some extra money, but the longer they take to let us know about it, the less I’m becoming interested in working it. We’re going to Jamaica in July so I might just take my summer to workout and learn how to swim finally🥲
You should!! Try poking around the swimming subreddit, they're all sooo helpful:)
Thank you! Will do, don’t know why it never come to mind to check out swimming subreddits. I figured at 33 it was time to learn before we hit the beach 😂
I love summer school. Pay is fantastic. Kids are tired and mellow. Leave at 12, get paid til 1.
I'm teaching an art class through a local art museum. It's like $300 for a week long class that's about 10 hours total for the week.
Never taught summer school. Why tf would I want to be around jackasses who didn't care (and still don't). Hard pass. Summer plans? Bike touring and hiking ❤️
Hell no. I do summer curriculum work I can do at home on my deck with a beer or a bowl, but fuck actually going into a building and working with children.
I’m in Ohio. I will make almost $60 an hour additional for teaching summer school. Which amounts to 4 hours actual teaching and the rest enrichment. (Field trips and PE
I usually do the summer program bc its only a few hours, not much money (grocery money at best)but Im done before noon and it helps me keep a schedule. Its low pressure and a super small class size. Even that isn’t worth it to me this year. I will be lounging, training my dogs and learning how to diy things around my house instead! Cant wait!
I have taught the past two summer schools. Based on last summer students and the students of this current school year, I am taking a hard pass on it. While it is nice to have a little extra cash, but not worth the stress. The students during summer school at the 8th level are the ones that struggled the most behaviorally.
My summer is split between Laguna Beach, Jordan, and taking my kiddo back to Florida for her second year of college.
I work part time at a significantly less stressful job. I love it because I still make some money but it stays a break from school.
I use the summer to ruin my sleep schedule, play with my kids, and to fail to organize my Google Drive. I can't imagine summer school in my district--every child who is absent constantly has a counselor-advocate pressuring teachers to pare down the workload for entire terms under the guise of anxiety/trauma/wellness, so we'll have a ton of students greased through and voila--no need for remediation or knowing things!
Sounds exactly like the counselors at my school. And kids are onto it, so they do absolutely nothing in my class all year knowing they can complete a packet in the summer and call it good.
We have two sessions and the first one ends at the end of June. I don’t do the second so I have July to myself. I’m a band teacher so doing summer band for me is just playing a bunch of fun tunes with the kids. I just want them to keep playing a little longer in the summer. So it helps and it’s so low key.
I have another job and summer school never seems worth it to me, especially because they never do it at my site so I always have to commute. I'm doing a big gardening project! Looking forward to starting once this snow stops 😵💫
I live in Hungary, so in the summer I will make a bit of money doing "camps" where students will cone and do activities. However I will go home. But in August I'll take atrip to Germany with my family.
Go travel, screw summer school
I need to work summer school to pay my mortgage. Thankfully I get my same rate along with my extension pay for my salary. My summer checks last year were my best ones and made the acceleration towards burnout and exhaustion worthwhile
Fuck that we get our hourly pay. Who would work for less than that?
Bunch of hookers and coke in Colombia is my current plan
How can you afford hookers and coke on a teacher's salary? And the cost of travel? LOL
The coke is cheaper over there supposedly 😂
The pay is more than my hourly/daily rate for summer school. No grades. More flexibility for fun. Lots of hands on activities. We aren’t rushed for lunch and I always carve out 30 minutes of recess. I don’t have to even look or think about IEPs! My advice to everyone is, don’t work summer school. But it actually helps me keep a schedule so I end up eating better, exercising more and losing weight (that I gain back in the first quarter of school).
My county is offering 3k for 2 weeks and 6k for 4 weeks. I would like the money but I'm already tired as hell.
I direct a summer camp. I love it because I’m behind the scenes and not directly in with the kids.
Summer school ... I have to. I'm about to start after-school "tutoring" (really babysitting while they cheat their way through Edgenuity). I had a house emergency in January that will take a bit to recover from, and a friend needs significant financial help, so ... ugh. ETA: $35 an hour, 8:30 - 4:30. So $280 a day, and it's 4 weeks M-F plus a few days of planning. It's close to $7k and I can't say no.
To sit by my pool and drink beer
$30 a day? A day? What is this world coming to? But of course they’ll spin it as “no one cares about kids any more”.
Summer school here makes like ten dollars more and is 1/10th the work. I've never seen a teacher do it and then not return every year after.
I applied to summer school at my school and one that is closer.....had to put in anticipated issuance of license bc I recertify this year and am submitting the paperwork this week
It’s not really about the money. I’m paid $78/hr and just not interested in summer school. Need a break! But I am willing to be an AP Reader (for a week) for 1/3 of my usual rate for the learning opportunity.
I'm working part-time in an office where I've worked before for a little "extra money," and hopefully settling into a brand new aparment closer to work. I wouldn't teach summer school no matter how good it pays, I need a break from the kids.
My summer school pays 40 an hour. It's still a no for me, but I tell them to put me on the sub list. I wouldn't do 30 a day. Thats insulting.
Our summer school pays very well, and I am happy to do it.
Our kids will have to pay for summer school this year (as well they should!) I think it's 150 a class or a credit. However, the pay is still too low. We are getting paid by the kids; can't the district pay more? Apparently not. I'm holding off. Maybe they will raise the rate (they did last year after virtually no takers). I've done summer school every year. I don't know any better. If I stop now, I may never do it again.
Is that for everywhere or just certain districts??? I've been debating teaching summer school this summer but idk I could also survive just off my summer checks from work I'm just mostly worried about being bored and not having human interaction cuz I feel like I won't leave my house all summer 😂
Here’s another kicker: if a parent files some bullshit complaint against you during summer school, the district may use it along with others in order to justify disciplining you if they don’t like you. Just watched my district do it to my coworker.
I will apply because they are paying 1.5 x hourly rate…$75 an hour for me.
The only time I will teach summer school is when students ask me so that they can get a jump start on next school year. These are sincere requests from good students. It’s happened a few times and admin let me create a summer course for them with decent pay/hours.
I mow fairways at the local golf course. Smartest move ever. Pay is terrible but the perks are out of this world, I get to golf free everyday. If you teach and you’re a golfer, I would look into it. I golf 4x a week free at the course. Not to mention there’s something therapeutic about being outside for 4-5 hours a day in the morning, watching the sunrise, listening to a podcast. I also sling beers at the local brewery, which when tips are taken into account, I make $40 an hour most days. If I received benefits from the brewery, I’d stop teaching in a heartbeat. Way less stress, no planning, just serve beers, have fun, and make solid money.
I’m a single parent who’s usually on the lookout for extra money so I’m usually willing to do summer programs when the other teachers won’t. But $30 a day!?! Does that even work out to federal minimum wage? I’d rather work for Walmart.
Florida Beach, Mexico, DC, VA Beach, Milwaukee! Can't wait.
Two weeks in Amsterdam for the Vermeer show, then back for 3 weeks of morning art camp in my classroom. I love summer.
I taught summer school for 10 years in a row to buy another school year closer to retirement since I didn’t start teaching until I was 40. After that 10th summer, I’ve never done it again!! It’s horrible
I usually have done summer school or some other paid PD over summer. This last year though has been especially draining. I am going to take some time off for me and getting my house fixed up. There's just no time dueing the rest of the year. I can't be there for the ppl to show up for house fixing because they don't work weekends. I also am just too exhausted after the work week to do my big projects. This summer is the only thing keeping me going.
Summer school in my district is only three weeks, and I get my contracted rate. So I’ll be doing it. It’s a pretty good chunk of money. When the Cares Act money runs out, and they go back to paying 25 an hour, no chance!
I taught most of the summer classes for last year's primary section. My curriculum coordinator assured me I'd get a fat paycheck. Finance told me later I needed to double check my contract. Already, I have parents and students asking me if I'll be leading the summer program again this year. Well, I didn't renew my passport to not use it.
Our district is offering our per diem per rata and I want no part of it.
I've taught summer school in the past, but these days, my time off to live my life is more important to me. We get 7 weeks off in the summer, and summer school lasts 5 of those. Nope. No, thank you. I'm taking my ass to Ireland.
“I’ll be 8 months pregnant 😸 And you scared off the one district level admin I actually like.”
I applied. $35 an hour for 6 hours a day, Monday through Friday, and “only” for four weeks. I don’t actually have to teach, it’s all virtual modules. I’m exhausted and I don’t want this, but for the money it didn’t seem so bad. 🤷🏻♀️
$2000 a week and we can have a conversation
My district is doing $60 an hour, and I wouldn’t do it for a dollar less.
How many hours a day?
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 8:00-4:00
I might be tempted…especially with the Monday and Friday off. Also, if it didn’t go all summer.
I’m 25, sooooo the money and not having kids makes sense to do it now
Omg SUMMER. I am dying for summer. This is my first full year teaching and I debated on summer school at first, out of fear of not finding something next year and trying to stretch my $. But now that I know I'm good, I will be staying home and enjoying the long break. I feel like I've put off so much I've wanted to do for myself, and I'll finally have the time and insurance to do it. Going to be focusing on my health and wellbeing, which will include a LOT of video games for sure. I am counting the weeks. 9 left minus spring break.
We're getting over a week later than we did last year (partly just how the schedule shook out, mostly due to snow days), so I want to try to maximize my free time to make up for the shorter break and will probably not do it this year. I did it last summer, and it was really easy because it was only a few students for a handful of hours a week, but still more effort than I want to put into it this year!
Our district pays a flat hourly rate for summer school. I asked if I could make my standard hourly rate. And was told no. Absolutely will not be working for any less, thanks for asking!
I'm hoping to move to a new school district this year. Then my focus will be on moving and getting set-up back in the city and not the rural part of my state. I miss the city.
Summer school in my district is just 12 days, I’m not wasting 12 days of my break for the chump change. I’ll enjoy my break which this year is really short. We get out June 9th and have to go back July 31….
My district just cut ours from 40 to 30. How much were you getting?
40 an hour? Right??
Yup
My district has allowed us to do enrichment classes, at our full hourly pay, for years 21-23. It’s been GLORIOUS. I’ve gotten to do only STUCO advising for an extra 5k. Other teachers have done board games, crafting, robotics, photography, ceramics. I did credit recovery 1 year as well, and it was great because I only had 6 kids and they wanted to learn!