I expect that soon the year-round school will be in place. Most of us anticipate the change. Right now, it is not the educators stopping it, but the parents, the children, and the communities who do not want to air-condition buildings, pay more for supplies or hourly staff, etc. Try thinking outside the box, innovatively, about how to improve our educational system. However, people who enter teaching and work to attain degrees, do it for different reasons than those in the business world.
Most teachers truly like to teach, and most teachers truly enjoy their area of expertise.
The problem today is that while more and more is being asked of teachers, they find themselves with less and less return from their school systems. Teachers are faced with endless meetings, paper work, phone calls to parents. Teachers are required to earn CEU's from assigned workshops, credits to be presented to the state every five years to ensure that their teaching certificate is updated. Perhaps they greatest irony of all is teaching in the inner cities. Here, the facilities are the poorest, the students are the most difficult and troubled, the local politics is the most intense, the school day the longest, violence is greater, every day tension is often extreme, and yet, the salary is often lower than in the suburbs.