Are You Sick Of Highly Paid Teachers?

[daycare]

Teachers' hefty salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work 9 or10 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 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!!!!

[momofsix]

I saw this as someone's fb post. All the teachers were writing bad comments b/c they didn't read it! Pretty amazing when you think of it that way.

[daycare]

I saw this as someone's fb post. All the teachers were writing bad comments b/c they didn't read it! Pretty amazing when you think of it that way.

my sister is a high school teacher and she sent it to me... When I first read it at the start I was like why in the world would she send this to me and why is she supporting it..

Very interesting facts here....

[Cat Herder]

I saw this on FB, too...

I don't think anyone resents the actual teachers...

I think the system in general has some serious bugs that need working out, though...

Both my sisters are teachers and thought that was funny....they did however "unfriend" several former classmates...

[DCMomOf3]

I have a lot of teacher family and friends. Every one of them posted this on FB.

[My4SunshineGirlsNY]

It appears at the beginning of this article that teachers are being called overpaid...yet at the end it's showing they are WAY underpaid. After doing daycare, I don't know how the elementary teachers remain sane....getting 20 kids or so to all behave....but it seems the classroom has them better behaved than the home setting. What's their trick??

[jen]

LOL! When I first started reading that, I thought I might pop a gasket! LOL! Glad I read to the end! Very nice.

[Blackcat31]

If you are in Wisconsin, here is a link to look up how much your child's teacher is paid in salary and fringe benefits.....There are several ways to look them up, by name, position or school I believe.....scroll to bottom of page and you will see where to enter the info....

http://www.postcrescent.com/article/99999999/APC0110/80221166/DataMine-Search-Wisconsin-teacher-salaries?appSession=479285734827801

California info: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/01/26/995...-district.html

If you are in Minnesota here is the link for your teachers salaries http://extra.twincities.com/car/schl...s/default.aspx

[daycare]

LOL! When I first started reading that, I thought I might pop a gasket! LOL! Glad I read to the end! Very nice.

yeah and I both...

[jen]

If you are in Wisconsin, here is a link to look up how much your child's teacher is paid in salary and fringe benefits.....There are several ways to look them up, by name, position or school I believe.....scroll to bottom of page and you will see where to enter the info....

http://www.postcrescent.com/article/99999999/APC0110/80221166/DataMine-Search-Wisconsin-teacher-salaries?appSession=479285734827801

California info: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/01/26/995...-district.html

If you are in Minnesota here is the link for your teachers salaries http://extra.twincities.com/car/schl...s/default.aspx

Coolio! So, I've been a little nervous about spending the money for both of us to get our masters in sped...feeling a little better now!

[Michael]

Great teachers "should" be highly paid. That being said, many ARE overpaid. The problem is, how do we assure all are great and highly paid.

[Kaddidle Care]

There are good and bad in every profession. Unfortunately the bad in the Teaching profession are protected by a very powerful Union. (Which makes oodles of money from these Teachers - DEMANDS it in fact.)

Ditch the Union, Hire the good Teachers and Fire the bad ones.

Wisconsin is a year behind New Jersey in the fight against Teacher's Unions.

[Unregistered]

Ditch the Union, Hire the good Teachers and Fire the bad ones.

I agree. Ditch the Union. Hire good teachers. Fire the bad.

The calculations used here are not fair to use. Our children are not piece rate. Most teachers make good money, have good pensions and are protected by the union... whether they are a good teacher or not.

Breaking their pay down to the hour per student is not a fair way to figure their pay, its just a round about way to get people to think they are under paid.... and I'm sorry, they are not getting paid to babysit my children... they are getting paid to educate a group of children at the same time. $50K+ for 180 days of work is good money.

Just my two cents.

[Lucy]

Teachers' hefty salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work 9 or10 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 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!!!!

This has been going around Facebook for a couple weeks.

[3kidzmama]

I agree. Ditch the Union. Hire good teachers. Fire the bad.

The calculations used here are not fair to use. Our children are not piece rate. Most teachers make good money, have good pensions and are protected by the union... whether they are a good teacher or not.

Breaking their pay down to the hour per student is not a fair way to figure their pay, its just a round about way to get people to think they are under paid.... and I'm sorry, they are not getting paid to babysit my children... they are getting paid to educate a group of children at the same time. $50K+ for 180 days of work is good money.

Just my two cents.

FYI... I am currently a public school teacher (special education) and my salary is nowhere near $50,000. I make $30,000 before taxes. And I work WAY more than 180 days per year. That is merely the amount of days the students are there.