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Teachers' hefty salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work 9 or10 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 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 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 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 need a "like" button so I can like this. I get so tired of hearing the "You only work from 8-3:30 and have so many breaks and summers off" crap. I spend sooooooo much of my free time working on things for my school. I don't complain about doing my job--I teach for a reason. I truly love it, but I get tired of people thinking we're "overpaid". If I were paid for the hours I worked, including nights and weekends, I'd be a rich, rich woman.
ReplyDeleteI've done office work and teaching. My office work could be left at the end of the day and during the weekend. Not so with teaching. Always something to think about, a parent to contact, something to create and plan for. Just this weekend for example: I stayed at school on Friday until 6 working on things for this upcoming week. I went to school again this afternoon for a couple hours to work. Went to the store to spend my own money on things for the class. I was working on things here at home for an additional 3 hours this evening. Yeah. Boy do I feel better.
I didn't mean to write a blog of my own in your comment box. Guess you just spoke to me, sister teacher friend!
AGREE!!! I posted this on my FB
ReplyDeleteI posted this on my blog this weekend, also! In fact, it was my first post on my new blog... good to know I'm not alone in these thoughts! :-)
ReplyDeleteI heard this a hundred times and each time it drives me insane. I hear so much for being teacher... "you have it easy" "you have summers off and have stupid holidays off" This puts it into such perspective for those neigh sayers. Thankfully my husband supports us and consistently defends teachers to anyone who argues the opposite.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the reminder!
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