I had a friend post this on facebook and found it entertaining. Enjoy!
Are you sick of highly paid teachers?
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!!!!
Too bad they don't actually pay teachers this way since music teachers usually have at least 150 students in a decent size program. Remind me why I'm becoming a teacher again? Once I have my own program, I won't be getting paid even close to minimum wage to babysit kids all day (and yes, a lot of the time it does feel like babysitting).
Tragically it isn’t that easy. The main only logical flaw to the argument is that teaching is not babysitting as kids are not legally obligated to go to a babysitter but they are legally obligated to go to school. Paying $20 per child to go to school is ok by me but they better easily make it into the college of their choice (Stanford, Yale, Harvard, BYU) and have a scholarship to go along with it. Private schools offer good test scores, a better chance for your child to succeed in college, more individualized teacher/student participation, and even greater safety than public schools, it is a wonder more parents don’t choose that route. The reason they don’t is that they can afford the $20 a day (or the thousands of dollars for tuition per school year) to send them to a private school.
ReplyDeleteIn the end it is sad how much we are paying teachers for educating our kids. They deserve a lot more. However states have budget problems across the country and the most expensive budget item on every state’s budget is education…by far. More pay for teachers means less for cops, or firefighters, or librarians, or those pot hole fillers (which apparently there is like only one in Omaha), or many others.
Teacher pay is a problem with little or no end in sight.