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?
I completely agree with you. It's always bothered me that athletes get six figure salaries while many teachers have to look for second jobs. We trust these people to educate our children. The future of our entire country (one of the most powerful in the world), and we barely pay them enough to survive. Teachers and the education system as a whole, should always be a country's number one priority. Everything relies on how well educated the population is. We are one of the worst countries in the entire world at educating our youth. In other countries, being a teacher is the most respectable career there is, and that is how it should be here. It is through our teachers, we learn how to think and how to learn. Every great idea and great thinker owes credit to a great teacher. Teachers are not babysitters, they are the shapers of the future.
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