and also..i posted the text below on facebook this evening and it caused a bit of a stir and i think perhaps some confusion…and i thought i would see what you facebook shy bloggers thought…
I have to say i read this and my immediate response was that it illustrates how low teaching salaries are in an interesting and different way. I like the fact that it pokes fun at the old chestnut…'well teachers get loads of holiday ' comments…
However not sure everyone who read it felt the same way…see what you think
of course apologies to those who 'do' facebook and have come here for this post expecting something original when they have already seen it on fb….
meh 😉
This is great… Read this if you appreciate or even hate teachers.
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!)
teamjames
as soon as the world realises nurses and teachers keep our basic world running, it will be a better place….
lets campaign for teachers to get the miminum wage sarah – just think of all the nice holidays that could be taken !
I’ll make the placards, you bring a loud speaker ( or just matilda maybe ???!!)