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Showing Original Post only (View all)Are you sick of highly-paid teachers? [View all]
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Teachers' hefty salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work nine or ten 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 planning -- that equals 6-1/2 hours).
So 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 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 (nationwide) 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!!!!
Make a teacher smile; repost this to show appreciation for all educators.
Meredith Menden
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/22/948224/-Are-you-sick-of-highly-paid-teachers?detail=facebook
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The COO at the bank I used to work at told me that teachers make $300K.
DisgustipatedinCA
Jan 2016
#3
Right. At least if they're making $70,000 per year, all of those unreimbursed supplies they
japple
Jan 2016
#10
No, I think we should cap the salaries of CEO's and other execs and direct that
smirkymonkey
Jan 2016
#20
It all depends on cost of living. Income taxes should factor in geographical cost of living as well
californiabernin
Jan 2016
#21
I never met a teacher, cop or firefighter that made $125k and I bet I am older then you are.
Rex
Jan 2016
#49
AND highly-paid libarians, social workers, janitors, garbage collectors, sales clerks,
pampango
Jan 2016
#35
Well it's not like education is as important as stock speculation or oil drilling
DirkGently
Jan 2016
#47