"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 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 $19.20 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 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 the 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!!!
Heaven forbid we take into account highly qualified teachers or NCLB...
Make a teacher smile; re-post this to show appreciation!"
I saw this after I made a post today. But I'll repost it this week with link back to your blog. We should ask all teacher blogs to post this on Labour Day.
ReplyDeleteTeachers are an easy target. I always think that after teachers, come mothers. It is easy to blame mothers and to underestimate their impact and their work, but they are definitely necessary to society and the cornerstone of a family. Just as teachers are necessary, valuable and,unfortunately, witnesses to all that is going wrong in society.
Why doesn't anyone ever argue the other side? Why don't we pay teachers more?
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Teachers are paid surprisingly well in the United States. However, it is not enough to just pay teachers a high salary; they also need to be given enough time off to spend with their families and the ability to use their skills in other professions, like research paper writers.
ReplyDeleteA major factor that's driving up taxes is teacher salaries. Teachers are usually paid more than average salaries, which means that there is a higher tax rate for teachers than other industries. Teachers should be compensated for the work they do outside of school, as well as given time off for family and personal time. If we want a more productive workforce in the future, it's important that we fix these issues now.