Hello, all! For my first post into the teacher-bloggy world, I thought I'd share some thoughts that are going around my peers right now. It's also quite timely, taking into account the news that education/public worker pay is making right now in our nation! Read on and see what you think.... :)
Are you sick of highly paid teachers?
Teachers' hefty salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work 9 or 10 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 22? So that's $19.50 x 22 = $429.00 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 $429 X 180= $77,220 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 22 children X 180 days = $205,920 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/22 students=$12.63/6.5 hours = $1.94 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.
And this doesn't include private school teachers who make dramatically less money than the public school teacher. Thanks for sharing this. This was interesting.
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