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Saturday, February 26, 2011

Teacher's pay in perspective

Are you sick of highly paid teachers?  Aren't we all?

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 minutes off for lunch and planning-- 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--we shouldn't 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 0 children x180 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.

Update: I'm glad that many people have shown their support for teachers by reposting this note, but I am not the original author. I received this as an anonymous chain letter email, and I wanted to share it to support the public workers of Wisconsin.

(Thanks and a hat tip to my friend, Andrew L. for this, from his FB page.  And yes, he's a teacher.)

2 comments:

Donna. W said...

Hey, I shared this on Facebook a week ago. It's great, isn't it?

Mo Rage said...

Good for you! Obviously you and I aren't friends on FB, huh? I did edit it a little bit from what I saw. Some grammar and things.

Yes, it is good. I think it does put things into perspective.

Balancing budgets on the backs of teachers, health care workers, police and fire depsrtments seems crazy. The richest 1% in the country--who are, literally, making hundreds of thousands or even millions per year--pay the same tax rate as those making, say, $200,000.00/year. That doesn't make sense AND they wouldn't miss the money, either one, but no, let's balance our budgets on the backs of teachers.