Teachers' hefty salaries

by retired2 Thu Jan 10, 2013 7:49 pm

Teachers' hefty salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work 9 or 10 months a year!
It's time we put thing 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 $19.50 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!!!!

Heaven forbid we take into account highly qualified teachers or NCLB...

Make a teacher smile; re-post this to show appreciation ♥ all you out there!