Teachers’ Salaries
The issue of teachers’ salaries is always near and dear to my heart so I thought I would share the following. You may have seen it before but I got a chuckle out of it when someone sent it to me recently.
I, for one, am sick and tired of those highly paid teachers. Their 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! I would give them $3.00 an hour and only the hours they worked, not any silly planning time. That would be $15.00 a day. Each parent should pay $15.00 a day for these teachers to baby-sit their children.
Now, how many do they teach in a day? Maybe 25?
Then that’s 15 x 25 = $375.00 a day.
But remember they only work 200 days a year! I’m not going to pay them for any vacations. Let’s see? That’s 375 x 200 = $75 000.00. (Hold on, my calculator must need batteries!)
What about those Leading Teachers or the ones with Masters Degrees? Well, we could pay them minimum wage just to be that fair. Let’s round it off to $6.00 an hour. That would be $6.00 times five hours times 25 children times 200 days =$150 000.00 per year.
Wait a minute, there is something wrong here!
THERE SURE IS, HUH?
My first post was a serious one concerning teacher pay and I dare say I will have more to say on the subject at a later date - bear with me.
“You can’t coach that”
In the U.S. it isn’t the teachers that make the big money, it’s the administrators. Big scam here!
