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If you are a teacher or hate teachers you should read this!
High Paid Teachers?
Are you sick of high 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 - baby sit! 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; send this to someone who appreciates teachers..
Are you sick of high 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 - baby sit! 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; send this to someone who appreciates teachers..
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Re: If you are a teacher or hate teachers you should read this!
I've seen this before and love it... I wonder what it would come do to for the school nurses in the teachers union.
My school has about 800 kids (down a few hundred frmo last year) and 100+ staff. I see about 50-80 kids a day on average.
We had 2 years of IF trying to conceive #2 and one loss during that time. We are currently trying for #3! had another loss the end of June
I agree- teachers are highly under paid, under appreciated, and give so much to their profession!
However, I think these emails are silly!
Bar tab = $156,000, Bus to Foxwoods = $0, Puking in the Stanley Cup = Priceless
Why?
I pay for DD to go to daycare 5 days a week and pay 220 a week for her to be there roughly 9-10 hours a day ($44 per day, roughly 4.90-4.40 per hour) as does every other parent in her daycare. Yes it obviously doesnt all go to the teacher, some goes to facilities matienence, buying new toys and materials but by that same logic our school system should be able to pay our teachers at least 3 bucks an hour per kid. Why does this logic seem odd to you. Would you hire someone off the street to babysit/tutor your kid for less than 3 bucks an hour? Why would/should a teacher do it for less than your average teenage girl does? Yeah they love their job and it's a calling, but so do doctors and we dont advocate paying them less than 3 bucks an hour per patient.
Because a baby sitter for an individual child and a classroom teacher are entirely different. You can't assign a dollar value to each child because a significant portion of teaching is lecture-style, where it doesn't matter much if you're talking to 15 kids or 25.
Bar tab = $156,000, Bus to Foxwoods = $0, Puking in the Stanley Cup = Priceless
I have to respectfully disagree with this. I was a high school teacher, and I would say the vast majority of teachers have embraced differentiation and group and individualized instruction, with an emphasis on student-led learning. All of this adds up to very little lecture-style learning, and a lot of individual and small group attention. I think this is even more true for lower grade levels...to be sure, elementary teachers do not lecture for the majority of the day! This does not even take into account the amount of time teachers spend grading and evaluating individual students, doing "extras" like work with IEP's, and a great deal of specialized lesson planning to account for individual learning styles.
The last time I checked kids are no longer lectured. Classrooms are student centered unless you specifically send your child to a DI (direct instruction) school. I have been teaching a long time and have NEVER known a teacher to lecture even 25% of a class let alone a "significant portion" as it sucks to teach that way just like it sucks to learn that way.
As a teacher who's had class sizes as small as 13 and as large as 32, I can safely say there is a HUGE difference between 15 kids and 25 kids. The number of kids in your classroom does matter.
I'm a music teacher and have been in the same school for 8 years. Just to put it into perspective, I make $47,000 a year (music teachers are paid the same as a grade level teacher) and have to worry every year that I will be cut. New York State requires teachers to obtain their Master's degree within 5 years of provisional certification a long with teacher for 2 years. Many people can't even find jobs making it extremely hard to meet these requirements- if you don't meet the requirements you are pushed back a number of steps, retake certification tests and jump through a lot of hoops just to get back to your provisional certification.
DH, on the other hand, works for GE in an "unskilled labor" type position and he makes almost double what I make.
Tax payers in our area, as a whole, are not supportive of the teachers and feel we're overpaid. Recent editorials in our local papers have torn the teachers apart. Statements like we "work 3 hours a day and make $80,000/year" are what people are reading and apparently believing. It's really sad. I love my district- DH and I both went to the school and DS will as well. We bought a house in this distict because of the schools but, honestly, the opportunities for students are quickly vanishing.
Can you tell this is a sensitive subject for me