Teachers' hefty salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work 9 or10 months a year! It's time we put things in perspective and pay them for what they do - babysit!
We can get that for less than minimum wage.
That's right. Let's give them $3.00 an hour and only the hours they worked; not any of that silly planning time, or any time they spend before or after school. That would be $19.50 a day (7:45 to 3:00 PM with 45 min. off for lunch and plan-- that equals 6 1/2 hours).
Each parent should pay $19.50 a day for these teachers to baby-sit their children. Now how many students do they teach in a day...maybe 30? So that's $19.50 x 30 = $585.00 a day.
However, remember they only work 180 days a year!!! I am not going to pay them for any vacations.
LET'S SEE....
That's $585 X 180= $105,300
per year. (Hold on! My calculator needs new batteries).
What about those special
education teachers and the ones with Master's degrees? Well, we could pay them minimum wage ($7.75), and just to be fair, round it off to $8.00 an
hour. That would be $8 X 6 1/2 hours X 30 children X 180 days = $280,800 per year.
Wait a minute -- there's
something wrong here! There sure is!
The average teacher's salary
(nation wide) is $50,000. $50,000/180 days
= $277.77/per day/30
students=$9.25/6.5 hours = $1.42 per hour per student--a very inexpensive baby-sitter and they even EDUCATE your kids!) WHAT A DEAL!!!!
Make a teacher smile; repost this to show appreciation for all educators.
***Note: I didn't write the above, and I'm not sure who did.
It's been posted and reposted-if you know who the original is, I'll give them credit.
I think all the teachers should strike.
IF every singe one of them did it, and parents had to call in sick to work so they could come home and actually take care of their own children, and teach their own children-you can bet there'd be enough calls to the legislature to get things actually moving. I'm almost afraid to have children with the way we keep driving their educations into the ground.
How can we expect them to teach our children and shape their futures if we pay them minimum wage and shove 40+ students into an hour time slot? How about with all the legislators screwing them over at every single turn?
How can we expect them to teach our children and shape their futures if we pay them minimum wage and shove 40+ students into an hour time slot? How about with all the legislators screwing them over at every single turn?
I'm so with you. Teachers have one of the hardest jobs there is (I couldn't stand to be around all those kids all day), and one of the most important ones, they need to be paid accordingly.
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ReplyDeleteI think there are a lot of great underpaid teachers out there. if we put as much into our education system as we do into other crap, it would be a better world.
ReplyDeleteSo many teachers are underpaid. And so many teachers should NEVER be teachers. It's a difficult job and some people are too unprepared.
ReplyDeleteThere needs to be more funding for schools in general as well as teachers. It's a shame our country neglects what is really important.
ReplyDeleteAs someone with an education degree you get a thumbs up from me on this one. Teachers haul ass with limited hours, limited pay and VERY high expectations. MOST teachers work year round, planning lessons, units, reviewing standards and preparing for each school year. Not to mention some put hundreds of their OWN dollars into teaching the kids in their classroom.
ReplyDeleteMore people need to recognize the efforts and work that teachers put into their jobs!
My mom was on the local school district board for 8 years, and I saw the struggles she had to go through to keep some semblance of quality in the classroom. We're still under Bush's HORRIBLE "no child left behind" program, which essentially rewards test scores with federal monies, instead of rewarding learning or good teachers. It's so very, very broken.
ReplyDeleteAdd to that plenty of sabotage (on our district, at least) by administrators and parents who didn't care....it was a nightmare for all of us.
Sadly, there were about 10% of the community and 10% of the teachers who worked hard and cared and tried to make a difference. The rest floated by, or took the "I don't have a kid in school, so it doesn't affect me" (totally false) attitude.
But a LOT of the problems are lack of funding, to both those who work at schools (in any capacity) and school resources (like infrastructure and supplies). That, and an outdated system of rewards, checks and balances, and progress measuring.
There is a lot wrong with how people are paid for the jobs they do. I'm a nurse. I love my job. But there is no way anyone could say we do it for the money.
ReplyDeleteTeachers have A LOT of responsibility, and that level of responsibility is not recognised in how they get paid, at all.
I won't even begin to whinge about the "stars" of our society who kick a ball around for a few hours and in return receive a life of true luxury.
haha. Oh my god. When I started reading this I was like "Are you fucking kidding me!?" So glad it wasn't what I thought it was. Hell yeah teacher's should strike. This whole thing is completely ridiculous!
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