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!!!!
Make a teacher smile; re-post this to show appreciation for all educators.
** I am not the original author. I received this as an anonymous chain letter email, and I wanted to share it to support the public workers of Wisconsin.**
I was just going to post this to my blog but you beat me to it. I definitely don't want to be a teacher for the money but was blown away by these figures when reading. It amazes me how much under appreciated teachers are.
ReplyDeletehaha this is all over the place. Some kid in my TE class definitely posted it on Facebook and tagged us all in it. While I have some issues with teacher unions, especially related to tenure, I will agree that teachers are getting an unfairly bad rap in the current political climate. One political commentator even said that teaching was just a "part time job" anyway because they are done at 2:30. Apparently that guy never had a good teacher who worked hard for their students.
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