My school aged kids are not to lazy to get out of bed. They get up at 5:45 every morning and do their milk cows and chores before leaving for school with their mother at 7:05 everyday. I'm just saying with the scholarships, and low interest loans that are available to my high school senior(who is her class valedictorian by the way, BRAGGING DAD!!!!) she has an easier road financially than I and my wife do at the moment. My wife brings home between $2,200, and $2,300 a month take home after 20 years of teaching. With healthcare rising, every raise she has received in the last 10 years has more than been eaten up by that. I'm not saying my wife is going to get summer work, but I wouldn't judge those teachers that do, because teaching is not nearly as rosy as you think, especially her in rural South Dakota. I don't know what the job situation is like where you live, but around here if you are willing to work at all it's not hard to find somebody to hire you. They can't even keep the doors open to some of the new places that were built her (Subway) for example, because they can't finf reliable people to work the jobs.