Teachers - stolen from FB - NM It has already been posted here twice recently.. Sorry

I took this from a friend's facebook. Since we are all about teachers this week, I thought it was fitting. I think what it really shows is how all the school taxes you pay, really do not go to the teachers. Please keep this drama free, this thread is not to debate the issue once again but to look at the financial aspect in a different way.


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!)



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Message edited 2/21/2011 7:26:50 AM.

Re: Teachers - stolen from FB

I'm totally NOT trying to be annoying, but if you don't get many responses to this (it's of course entirely possibly that you'll get a ton), it's probably because it's been posted twice already in the last two days.

Re: Teachers - stolen from FB

Got it, I'm not on here much. Thanks for letting me know.