I'm a teacher, I don't finish till Tues. I think this causes an issue cause most people in education are off at once. On my FB timeline there are always pics of people on holiday, talking about hard days on the job. I guess most people are likely to know a fair few people in education, there are about 1.3 million teachers and teaching assistants in the UK ( according to a quick google search) after all.
Lots of people posting at once could get annoying obviously. But lots of people in other jobs do it, just not all at once cause their holidays are more staggered.
Teachers only really talk about the extra hours they do in response to Daily Mail style ad hom attacks about starting at 9 and finishing at 3.30, gold plated public sector pensions, long holidays and everything being their fault.
If you hadn't noticed teachers have been under a serious attack in terms of politicians being critical about how they do their jobs, changing terms and conditions, changing curricula at a whim etc.
I'm tired of listening to all that crap, I'm certainly tired of listening to the whinging about long holidays and parents having to juggle child care.
For a job that contains the level of qualification that is needed to enter the role, the stress that goes with it, the heavy term time work load, the holidays and a fairly reasonable pension are the only perks.
My other half works in accounts in a large media firm, last week they had friday afternoon off and the business provided wine and a very generous catered picnic whilst they had "sports day" in Regents Park. Then there are the discounts for this and that, the private health care, the expense lunches etc. Many of my friends work in private industry and get all sorts of perks.
Finally, everyone in the UK if they work full time is entitled to 28 days paid holiday including bank holidays, thats 4 weeks. Most folk I know who teach spend good amounts of October, feb and Easter half terms working at least some of the days. Add on the fact that most of us end up spending a good few hours every Sunday working and you could probably work out that , really teachers get the same holidays as everyone else. Just we have to take it all at once.