This is great... Read this if you appreciate or even hate teachers.

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(I'm not sure if this will stay up. It actually links to a facebook page. Since not everyone is signed up with FB, I went ahead and posted the whole thing. I may have to edit it, though. I just thought it was good enough to post here.)

This is great... Read this if you appreciate or even hate teachers.
by Eedroj Remier on Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 4:42pm

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 yourkids!)

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[Buzz Clik]

1. We generally pay more for daycare for our preschoolers than we'd pay teachers.

[azurnoir]

2. most daycare workers barely make minimum wage

that is not a good equivalence

[Buzz Clik]

4. That's not what I said.

I said the consumer pays more -- that money doesn't go directly to the daycare teacher.

[azurnoir]

5. We pay more in taxs for schools than the teachers pay would reflect

still not a good equivalence

[Buzz Clik]

6. You should be relieved that you didn't use it. However, ...

...I think it's just fine. I've used it before, and I'll use it again.

[dkf]

3. I hear it costs $11,000 for each of our kids in Hawaii.

But a lot of it is tied up in construction and maintenance of the facilities. That is the cost that makes our educational system so much more expensive than the rest of the world.