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 am a teacher. this summer i will be getting a prek endorsement for my teaching license. if we got paid this much, i think teaching would become overwhelmed with those who wouldn’t do the job/lifestyle any justice. it would become like sports and acting. granted, athletes’ bodies are taxed with bodily harm quite often. i feel that they are overpaid for once/twice-a-week entertainment. should we get paid more? heck yes! we are more than teachers. we are counselors, moms/dads to those who don’t have one, detectives, negotiators, nurses, janitors, etc. this job is more than just telling a child information. it is about providing children with the ability to do and to achieve and to reach their potential for the rest of their lives! it is most definitely not, nor will it ever be, about the pay. that’s my two cents at least…as i step off my soap box…
First things first, teachers are over paid as it is. While I firmly believe family support is key to a students progress the educator plays an important role as well. Therefore with so many of our nations youth failing basic proficiency exams in all subjects, why are we not holding the educators accountable. Oh, that’s right the unions protect them. I wish I could consistently fail at my job and continue to collect wages. Not to mention three months off a year.
If you still want to cry remember a few facts.1.) You chose this career knowing the salary. 2.) You are employees of the government and the taxpayers are your boss. Thus, you answer to us through our elected officials.
Change careers if you aren’t happy. Perhaps start babysitting. In light of recent test scores, that’s basically all you do apparently.
Isn’t everyone not paid “enough?” I work in higher education and frankly any profession where you are working in the commodity of people you will not be paid what you feel you deserve. Most of us, from those in skilled service trades to business professionals, do not feel they are paid what they deserve. And yet many choose professions that bring meaning to our lives and impact the lives of others. While I would love to be paid for each hour I work well over my full-time, 40 hours per week and, moreover, I would love to pay my staff what they really deserve and reflective of their worth as people, that is not the economy we work within. A lot of people work hard. A lot of people love what they do. A lot of people take work home that they are not paid to complete but has to be done. And a lot of people impact the lives of others from infancy through adulthood. Many K-12 teachers place themselves on a pedestal of service that deserves extraordinary compensation. Yes, you are important, but so are so many people in our society. The fact is a lot of our worth will never be realized in monetary value; that’s a hatchet you have to bury on your own before you let it erode the passion you have for your profession. If you are seeking the monetary compensation for what is that you do that impacts so many lives, then get in line. There are plenty of skilled and passionate workers seeking the same.
When I worked as an LPN I never made as much money as a nurse. Yet, I was responsible for as many as 60 patients at a time. Whoops, even more than once I was responsible to 180 patients as the only nurse for them. These patients relied upon me to live, the needed their medications from me, glucose (sugar) testing, insulin adminstration, breathing treatments, some were feed via tube feedings by me. I had to oversee the CNA’s (nursing assistants of which we were also always short-handed on) to make sure they respositioned and cleaned patients, and I had to jump in and do that too since we were short-handed on CNA’s. I had to do the charting or check charting on all of them in some sort or fashion everyday. I had to recheck vital signs on any that the CNA’s had taken that seemed unusual. I had patients I had to evaluate in very short periods of time and decide whether or not a Dr.’s call or transfer to a hospital (since in these situations I was working at nursing homes) when needed. I had to try and keep families informed and calm in bad situations.
I had to call mortuaries etc…
I had to deal with CNA’s that at times got in down and outright brawls and fist fights.
I was hit, kicked, bite, and spit upon by more confused patient’s then you can imagine.
Hospital nursing was hard too. I often had 16 patients assigned to me alone and was responsible for all of their care, except for the I.V.’s. I was often on 16 hour shifts at the hospitals because their were not enough nurses. I remember working on Pediatrics for 2 weeks straight doing 16 hour shifts, being assigned about 16 children all under the age of 2, where maybe only 2 families would ever show up to help with the care of their children in the hospital. That is absolutely no lie. I had to deal with stupid parents that would tape a pacifier over a childs mouth because they were too lazy to pick it up if the child spit it out. No lie. You can kill a baby like that, if it vomits with a pacifier taped in it’s mouth, it’s lungs fill with vomit. Try explaining to parents who do not want to learn the language why this is so wrong. I dealt with drunk abusive parents on pediatrics where I’d have to call security.
I also worked on adult floors too. Try to keep an adult from jumping out of a hospital window when they are trying to kill themselves.
For the three years of employment, I earned 1 week of vacation off per year, and another 9 personal days which were for sick days and any holidays I was lucky enough to get. Which by the way, I never got the holidays off. After three years of employment I was finally up to 2 weeks of vacation off per year. If I had stayed in the hospital employment I may have gotten up to 15 days of vaction off after 10 years.
So finally in my last years, after carpal tunnel, a wrecked back and my own health problems I went into home health care. I took a big cut in pay. No paid time off, no benefits what-so-ever. I was able to take care of one patient at a time in a patient’s home, however that has it’s problems too. You are exposed to cigarette smoke, family quarrels, unruly pets etc… Sometimes family’s would leave you with their other children to look after too, even though you were only suppose to be there looking after the ill child. Sometimes they’d leave you without food to feed their children. So, I always brought something more with me in case I needed to feed more than just me with my lunch.
So, I want to say, teaching has some perks when you compare it to some other professions out there.
I meant to type in my first sentence, I never made as much money as a teacher, not nurse.Then in a later sentence I meant to type,
patients relied upon me to give, not live.
I had my migraines I make horrible grammar and typing errors when they are coming on.
I am not a teacher; however, I have 3 children in school. Teachers should be paid like professional athletes. Professional athletes should be paid like teachers. Thank you and goodnight!
Hilarious! And the budget resolution that just passed cuts education even further.
i have several teaching degrees but have yet to secure a teaching job. prolly because i cant get paid what i think i’m worth, not factoring in commute time. ick.
Wow, this is an interesting debate. I really do not have much to add!!
I was a teacher, I made a reasonable salary ($20,000/yr in the late 80′s). There should be no tenure, the bad teachers get to keep jobs. Teachers should receive a base pay with incentive bonuses based on their class’s achievement as a whole.