A friend of a friend posted the following on Facebook:
Are you sick of highly 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 – 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 (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.
In response, I posted this:
Why don’t we pay each teacher $100 Million per year? Or why stop there, how about $1 Billion per year each?! The fact is that throughout much of the world, public sector wages have gotten completely out of whack with reality and certainly well beyond what equivalent private sector employees are making.
In Wisconsin, where the big protest is happening these days, public school teachers are essentially saying this to the non-public sector citizens of the state: “Support us in our cause so that we can retire at age 52 with full benefits. But don’t worry, though we know you’ll have to work to age 75 with just a fraction of the benefits we’ll get, we’ll support you … at least in spirit!”
Soon after I received this response from a fellow in the UK;
I can’t disagree anymore, teachers and most public sector jobs are in sync with private sector wages and dealing with #@%! mini terrorists and soon to be sexual deviants within the confines of a room don’t get paid enough to be teachers, nurses, and other front-line services. They deserve all the help they can get. People who work in offices [aka “the private sector”] on the other hand are scum of the earth . . . try being a teacher or work as a nurse cleaning up vomit and crap and having chairs thrown at you or being threatened with knives in your classroom with no support from parents. Get a life and stop complaining about people who actually try and improve society.
Too many thoughts come to mind. I’d be most interested to hear yours!
Montjoie: if you send your kids to private school, you still end up paying for your kids’ public education 100% while at the same time removing them from the public system.
That’s right, the public system IS ALREADY RECEIVING TONS of money from parents of kids who aren’t even taking up a seat. And somehow they still can’t manage to make a go of things. “Classes sizes are too big, and they’re getting progressively larger.” Oh really? My mom was born in 1942 and went to grade school in Southern AB. Her grade 4 class size? 34. THIRTY FOUR KIDS. Nothing’s changed but the teachers’ whining…and lying.
if i pay say… 30 dollars a day for my child in day care, that fee includes the rent to the building, the utilities, and otehr incidentals that is incurred while my child is in day care. so why didnt this teacher if he/she is a teacher factored the other expenses in? as a taxpayer we do pay for those “incidentals” and if you want to really compare apples to apples then lets include the expense on how to run the facility that you use to “baby sit” my child. and please while you babysit my child,,, dont impose your political view on him.
I wonder if it has occurred to your fellow in the U.K. that he doesn’t have to do it if he doesn’t want to.
As far as his “scum of the earth” comment, that’s fine. He just disqualified himself from the debate and hurt his cause.
I’ll take it.