Teachers do not work short hours.

If they are lucky, they have one daily planning period in addition to lunch, but there is no way that all the lessons can be planned and all the homework and tests can be handled in one period per day. Teachers have lots of homework plus grading and record keeping after their normal hours.

Often the “planning period" is used to talk with students having problems or to do tutoring. Sometimes, it's spent observing other teachers in an effort to maintain fresh perspective. Sometimes, it's spent covering for another teacher with a medical or personal emergency where there was no time to recruit a regular substitute.

There are faculty meetings and occasional after school in-service certifications. There are consults with the department chair and administrators regarding student discipline issues. Everything needs to be documented.

(There is never -nor has there ever been - any overtime pay for any of this!)

There are evening parent conferences for which teachers are grateful because it means the student has caring support.

School holidays are catch up for lesson planning, test preparation, grading et cetera.

(There's more, but this is enough to provide a sampling.)

By the way, teachers teach for the love and empowerment of their students.

Being a Science teacher does not mean that you know “everything” about Science. I would need at least 20 different college degrees.

English professors are not all raging atheist Marxists.

Half of the people in my department go to church, and lean center-right.

Many of the social-justice oriented or progressive students we teach already had such sympathies before coming to university. I can’t get my students to put away their smartphones in class; I certainly can’t dictate their political beliefs.

If you publish a book you’ll be rich.
Statistically you’re more likely to win the lottery. I am one of the very few authors who makes a living writing novels, and it’s not a good living—I earn less than an average fast food worker.

I work a full 40 hours a week but if I spend my saturday playing video games, its all i do.