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There is a Hebrew word that I miss a great deal in my foreign speech. This word is 'stam'. As much as I tried to find an equivalent that is as sharp, concise and effective as your own I so far failed to do so.
Does anybody know or can suppliy an advice on finding an English word (one word, please) for stam.

just
(just like that)

because
(why? - because)

- why did you do that?
- because.

Forgive me for writing in English but there are no hebrew letters on the keyboard and it takes me twice the time to write a text when I am trying to figure out the right keys in Hebrew.

As a son to a Math teacher I remember my monther working a lot in the afternoons and evenings preparing lessons and checking exams. She was also complaining about her fellow teacher who teached gymnastics - that teacher had hardly any work to do once she finished her lessons in schools.

I think that teachers should be compensated in a way that is somewhat proportional to the time they spend working, whether it is at home or in school. I am not sure I have a suggestion of a good way to do that, but the way my mother was (not) compensated for the time she was working at home is really not a good one.

As for the calculation of "how much time a teacher really works in a week", I would say two things. One is that I thing you can not compare office hours to the hours of a teacher that stands in a class and has to handle 30-40 kids who do not necessarily want to study. It is difficult, unless you have a really cooperative class, which is not the common case. The second thing is that a teacher indeed works less days per year, but that is not a reason to justify a low salary. If you thing about it - he/she has no other choice. Meaning, a teacher who wants to work all year around like anyone else, does not have a way to do it as a part of his teaching job, or in any other way within the education system. The only way is to find a temporary job during the summer, but that job would probably have very little to do with his job thoughout the rest of the year.

Main Entry: en·cy·clo·pe·dia

Etymology: Medieval Latin encyclopaedia course of general education, from Greek enkyklios + paideia education, child rearing, from paid-, pais child – more at FEW
Date: 1644
: a work that contains information on all branches of knowledge or treats comprehensively a particular branch of knowledge usually in articles arranged alphabetically often by subject

Main Entry: lex·i·con

Inflected Form(s): plural lex·i·ca /-k&/; or lexicons
Etymology: Late Greek lexikon, from neuter of lexikos of words, from Greek lexis word, speech, from legein to say – more at LEGEND
Date: 1603
1 : a book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language and their definitions : DICTIONARY
2 a : the vocabulary of a language, an individual speaker or group of speakers, or a subject b : the total stock of morphemes in a language
3 : REPERTOIRE, INVENTORY

it was discovered that winds through the Tacoma Narrows caused vortex shedding on the bridge, which then induced resonance in the bridge, causing it to sway and buckle dangerously in windy conditions.