Are you sick of highly paid teachers?

[wickedstangs]

Are you sick of highly 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 - 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!!!!

 

[Shane361]

Teachers get paid squat and these are the people thate molding our children! Most spend 20% buying school supplies our of their own pocket. It is a s hame.-Shane

 

[sdsubzero4]

Are you f'king crazy? Teachers are grossly underpaid as they are. Whoever came up with this writing hopefully did it as a satarical article to gain attention to the plight of the teaching profession. And Shane is right, most teachers have to buy supplies for their class out of their own pockets. Ridiculous.

 

[ST3RL1NGY3LLOW]

I work for San Diego Unified School District and I'm already seeing and experiencing all of the budget cuts. And yes, most teachers are underpaid. What I hate the most is those that achieve tenure are often sh*tty educators. Pay should be based on performance not how many years you've been teaching.

 

[V.I. Massive]

I agree yellow i've crossed great ones and one's who are close to retire that should have been gone years ago....... they are off campus before the students even make it from last class to their class room to ask a question or get help. usually it is the dedicated ones who get shafted.