Teachers’ hefty salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work nine or ten months a year! It’s time we put things in perspective and pay them for what they really do: baby sit! 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. That would be $19.50 a day (7:00 AM to 3:30 (or so) PM with just twenty-five minutes off for lunch). Each parent should pay $19.50 a day for these teachers to baby-sit their children.
Now, consider this: How many do they teach in a class, about 30? So that’s $19.50 x 30 = $585.00 a day. However, remember they only work 180 days a year!!! We’re not going to pay them for any vacations.
Let’s see, that’s $585 x 180= $105,300 per year. What about those special ed teachers and the ones with master’s degrees? Well, we could pay them minimum wage, and just to be fair, round it off to $7.00 an hour. That would be $7 x 6.5 hours x 30 children x 180 days = $245,700 per year. Wait a minute–there’s something wrong here! The average teacher salary $50,000/180 days = $277/per day/30 students =$9.23/6.5 hours = $1.42 per hour per student. A very inexpensive baby-sitter and they even EDUCATE your kids!
Very well said!
what a great way to put it in to perspective. Lets not forget the crap that they are having to put up with from some of the kids and with no rights to truly discipline them anymore.
Well..I do like your math..but..I wouldn’t call what they do these days as teaching. They most definitely are babysitting – but teaching? I still think teachers should be paid a helluva lot higher than what they are – but – let’s remember – they are government servants that serve at the expense of the taxpayers and therefore subject to government budgets. We need to privatize our school systems – perhaps we would get better, brighter teachers and actually pay them what they are worth – whereby producing better and brighter students rather than what they are putting out nowadays. I send my kids to private school for a reason. I already put 4 kids through public schools. 2 dropped out from encouragement by guidance counselors. One was an honor grad – but – couldn’t get in to regular college because she couldn’t pass the pre-req exams. She went to community college and ended up dropping out to work at hooters. The older one barely got through HS and had to take the ASVAB three times before he could get a score high enough to join the Army. My two little one’s will never go to a public school.
@John Q – thanks for the grammar lessons…that’s what I get for typing on the fly.
@Acadia – sorry dude – the old lady would kill me if I put any of them up. She did however make the calendar this year – here in Florida. You can find it yourself and guess! 🙂
I hope those private schools teach your kids the difference between plural and possessive.
Pics!
@The BoBo –
i’m so glad you are able to afford to send your children to private school. unfortunately, the majority of people do not have that luxury.
@Joelle
– well, if we disbanded that failed Dept of Education and gave everybody back their taxes that they pay in to the public school system and privatized it – you would indeed be able to pay for it.