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I feel like we have done this dance before...

On Teachers -- It is unfair to characterize their jobs as "only" 180 days a year - I am speaking of the good teachers, you know the ones that actually care about their students and truly enjoy their jobs, which sadly is not the majority of them - they are constantly, year round trying to improve on their craft via classes, planning and continued study at a level most other "jobs" don't even come close to replicating, also during their "180" day year they are not punching the 8 hour a day clock, they are putting in on average 11 to 13 hours per day + hours on the weekends (tacks on a few more days to that calendar).

Here is a little math:

Average "white collar" (8 hr days) job with 10 vacation days (average) and 2 weeks vacation (actually below average) puts in an average of 1,920 hours per year.

A Good/Great Teacher puts in an average of 1,980 hours per year - albeit in a compressed time frame.

As I said before there are not as many of the Good/Great teachers as there used to be...

That said, the courts did the right thing. Both the Teacher's Union and the School Committee are playing games with the quality of education in Warwick for the students in the system right now and parents have the right to be very angry about that.

Both parties need to put on their big boy pants and accept that neither side is going to get what they want, get a deal done and move on with the rest of our lives.