Monday, February 21, 2011

Truth about Teachers

You know how if someone posts a "note" on Facebook, only the first part shows? My friend posted the text below...I read the first paragraph and was ready to delete said friend. Then I clicked on it and kept reading...awesome!

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 do they teach in 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 peryear. (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!!!!

4 comments:

  1. Seriously, what the heck is wrong with our country that teachers get paid practically nothing???

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  2. I totally agree. I thought about being a teacher for a long time until I realized, wait... I make more now than teachers make and I only work 9 months for ten hours a week *including* prep time. And people complain and wonder about how American kids aren't as smart as everyone else in the world? It's shameful.

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  3. And most of us make less than the average teacher!

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  4. I love this! but really I hate it, you know what I mean? (love the post, hate the facts, just in case you don't know what I mean, ha :))

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