School Money

Are you sick of high 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 - 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, 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 do they teach in 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 peryear. (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!!!!
I found this on Facebook and i thought it said a lot about how money is spent in our educational system, and what it says about the care that we put into education. Do you think this is a fair assessment on how teachers should be getting paid? Knowing how much the state allows for payment on each student? Whats your take on the system?

Schools

I would like you to try and read California's proposed budget for our k-12 school system. Please try, I gave myself a migraine trying to go through it and make some sort of sense on how they distribute money to our schools who teach the youth of our state. I couldn't figure it out, maybe i should have paid better attention in my economics class. From what I was able to gather, the system works on a per pupil basis, in that case each student is paid for by state at a cost of $7,358 per student. This all  totals to a 66.4 Billion Dollar K-12 Budget for the 2010-11 school year. Compare this to the $11,000 spent per inmate in state penitentiaries, or even $15,000 per inmate at juvenile detention centers. Now although the budget does not clarify what the total cost of the detention center budget is, the fact that the amount is double that of per student cost probably means that its not a small budget. Should it concern us that the state is spending so much on our prison system then our educational system, which could potentially keep people from entering our prison systems. How California decides to distribute our money effects all of us, and how our state is able to operate. Do you think its right for the state to spend more money on Prisons then Schools?

It begins

The point of this blog is to fulfill a class assignment, but it is also to look at how in California our government is spending our tax dollars. With over a 25 billion dollar gap, what is the proposed plan for our State to get back on track, and close this enormous gap? I'm hoping to discover for myself and other followers of this blog where our states money is going, and how much we are bringing in a year. It is obvious that cut backs need to be made, the hard part always is where they are going to make them.