Highly Paid Teachers
I just saw this on Facebook and wanted to share it with my readers.
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!!!!
Haha! Yeah, I’ll have my Master’s degree with a special education endorsement when I graduate. However, I’ll never receive that much. Anyways, I just thought it was interesting. What do you think? Do you think teachers get paid enough?
I posted this on my blog too
I’m sick of people ripping on teachers myself.
I was very lucky as a child to have some excellent teachers in my life. I went to a parochial school and when I was switched to public school it took them 3 years to catch up to what I was doing in parochial school. Public school teachers are overwhelmed and underappreciated. How many parents would like to have 30 kids every day that they had to look after and educate? There were about 12 in each of my classes at parochial school. Don’t want to pay your teachers more? Fine. Then you can simply pay 3x’s as many teachers to do the job 1 currently does and make those classes a bit smaller. There’s an old saying – you get what you pay for. Education is no different.
Number 2 response: You are a complete idiot and obviously never spent a day in a school observing what a teacher does.
Progress of students? Each student learns differently and we tailor to those student needs as best we can-whether it be visual or kinesthetically. We prepare and create lesson throughout the year keeping the new students that are now in my class. I change my lessons each year by the class I have. I go above and beyond for the children and you are going to tell me I am over paid? You know nothing about what I do! You are probably one of those business people who messed up the economy in the first place and still have your job making tons. You need to go to a school and observe a teacher for a day before you open your mouth.
And we don’t have 3 months off- its 2. Get your facts straight.
Teachers are given one of the most important jobs – educating our children. How can you measure that in money? They do get time off, but I know how many extra hours they work after school, grading papers, tutoring, helping parents and students, volunteering, etc. They are not paid enough and are not babysitters.
Oooh my husband is a teacher – this is a big deal for me. I might be best off keeping my mouth shut on it. LOL! To the person that talked about Pro Athletes.. ROTFL and the NFL players are currently in the process of suing for more money!
I think most teachers are under paid and under appreciated.
OMG…that just cracked me up. At first I was totally mad. I’m glad I read the whole thing. Priceless!