I know I'm a couple of months late, and this has little to do with the original post, but holy shit DKD, really? Teachers work 120 days out of the year, and only put in 8 hour days??? HAHA, I wish. Get your facts straight before you post an ignorant rant.

I teach. I'm in the classroom just shy of 200 days out of the year. Literally all teachers put a minimum of 8 hours a day in, not just the exceptional ones, because student work can't be graded when children need to be taught, and if you fail to grade work, you're out of a job. And let's not even get on the subject of all the work that follows you home, which you don't get paid for, nor the necessary planning over our "summer break," which again brings no pay.

But why do we do it? Well for many of us, it's our calling. Many of us enjoy it-the actual act of teaching. And yes, while we do complain, because it is literally hell on Earth, it's not the actual art of teaching that generates these complaints. It's dealing with the children whose parents think they can rely on teachers to do the parenting for them; who don't raise their children properly by teaching them proper manners, etc., and expecting public schools to shape them into model individuals. Or it's dealing with poor funding. Or a broken public education system (NCLB). Or imbeciles like yourself who know very little about the points they attempt to argue. It's so many things.
Far too much responsibility is dumped on teachers these days. That's why we complain.