Monday, March 14, 2011

Bazinga!!

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!!!

1 comment:

Jessica said...

haha! love this, especially since both of my parents were teachers!