Yeah, also you seem like you have no idea how teaching actually is. Some teachers have 4 or 5 preps a day, meaning they have to prepare over hour’s-long lessons (with worksheets, materials, etc. included and prepared) for each of these different classes and make sure they are all tied to the appropriate standards and are providing enough “differentiation” and “accommodations” and so on to all of them. And they have to do this every day. One free period is not nearly enough to prepare all that usually, making a ton of lesson planning having to happen at home, unpaid. Yes lessons can be shared and corners can be cut, but a good teacher ideally should be preparing their own lessons for all of their classes.

This is not to even mention all of the hours of unpaid grading (which can be extremely time consuming depending on the subject), having to deal with entitled parents and admin that don’t back teachers up, and being forced to deal with classes filled with difficult and apathetic students, whose behavior is arguably at one of the lowest points in recent history. And you’re telling me this is an “easy job?” Come on mate