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 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!!!!
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And then you have teachers who are under the "tenure" program.... and have NO business teaching children. ANYONE else would lose their job if they could not perform the requirements of the job. OH WAIT, the BOE is one of two agencies that promote incompetence! If you can not perform, we will give you a raise and let you work as some sort of administrator! FYI... the post office is the second agency. Both goverment operated!
ReplyDeleteWho ever wrote this must not have gone to school ever...most disrespectful article I have read in a while. Teachers go to college to further their education and spend more money so they can better educate your children and then you complain abou the poor education. Thas because you are stupid plus you have never spent a life in the day of a teacher and the regular BS they go through on a daily basis because YOU CAN NOT CONTROL YOUR KIDS. If you do not want to send your kids to a free education then keep them home.
ReplyDeleteThe writer of this is an idiot. The US is falling farther and farther behind when compared with other countries, and you reccomend making it worse? How about the parents try doing their jobs?
ReplyDeleteYou have to remember that after they retire we still have to pay them. This also did not take into account the benefits we give them while they are working and after they retire. How about the tax credit that get each year?
ReplyDeleteMaryland Day Care law states that the maximum ratio of staff to children is 1:15, not 1:30. Hence, the cost of the teacher as day care provider is not $105k but rather $52k, or exactly the national average......
ReplyDelete12:27, did you even read the post?
ReplyDeleteBe nice to teach 30 kids per day. I have 6 math classes per day that average 32 kids per class. Maybe teachers of pre K through 6 grade have 30 kids per day, but not middle and high school teachers. I teach 1 regular math class, 2 algerbra, 1 trigs and 2 AP Math, plus help with Prom, Student Council and Bridge Club..
ReplyDeleteWill be nice to leave the school at 3 PM thought I would miss coaching field hockey. I will not miss staying for PTF where no parent bothers to show up. Just think I can actually eat lunch instead of being in my classroom tutoring a child that might get left behind. You think I can also put in that I will no longer have to pay for supplies or my room decorations. I am Sad to learn I will be in charge of baby sitting 30 kids, and I sure will not get the satisfaction of actually teaching your child to learn. I love kids and I love math.
I hope that letter is a joke because I do not believe a sane person wrote that bull s**t
I think the OP's intent was not derogatory but to support teachers and the fact that they are woefully underpaid and the schools are underfunded.
ReplyDeleteIt's along the lines of what would a stay-at-home parent would make if they drew the going rate for every job they perform.
Regarding tenure - guess what? I bet there are people at your employment who don't do their job either and still have a job when lay-offs hit because of their "tenure". It's the same anywhere you go, regardless of the profession.
ReplyDelete@2:15, yes I did. Did you? This is as disrespectful as it gets. People use their lives to better your children and they are dumped on because kids these days cannot be touched and are out of control. I dare you to tach one day in a high poverty area. teachers are given next to nothing to work with and we complain that they get paid too much? I pray for whoeer wrote this article because they have never obviously taken a step inside a local school.
ReplyDeleteWow - can't believe the different ways people are reading this.
ReplyDeleteOne word - S A R C A S M!
As a senior person that had 3 children attend Wicomico County schools I must respond, what an IDIOT. Please leave the country asap!
ReplyDeleteIf you do not like the salary pick another degree in college. Many people take the education route because the classes are easier than finance, chemestry etc... I have a minor in education for that reason.
ReplyDeleteits pretty obvious that all the hot heads i.e teachers posting on here. All educated and such missed the joke..you prove to us all ur all part of the problem. Long winded rants. You all need to fix this from the inside. I have no kids, but still pay taxes and truthfully I see allot of waste and mismanagement in upper levels of the education system. Pay the people in the trenches allot of money. They need it. Whats screwed the system is to many PHd bone heads (too many chiefs not enough indians) , PC, welfare / divorce ( single famliy homes), liberals, conservatives..Get back to basic the 3 R's. Its sad that that will never happen. I belive its because the Buracrancy of incompetence is to entrenched...
ReplyDeletePS go ahead all you english teachers have at my syntax, grammer, compostion, spelling etc..
3:25, apparently the majority of readers here don't know sarcasm when they see it. What a bunch of morons! These commenters should be included with why we shouldn't allow everyone to vote.
ReplyDelete@4:27 - you are out of your FREAKIN mind if you think education courses are easier than other degrees. I just finished my Elementary Ed degree/Math minor at SU and I can assure you - it was RIGOROUS! Humans are a dynamic species - always evolving. We not only have to know the content we teach, but we also have to know how our students learn. That includes the bezillion disabilities in the DSM-IV AND physical disabilities since they are part of the inclusive classroom. It's not as simple as learning chemical formulas or a programming language.
ReplyDeleteI'm sick of hearing "choose another career". Do tell me....where would YOU be if EVERYONE went into well-paying fields?
Without teachers we have no future. Period.
4:27 here again. Not once did I say the job was easy and I appreciate your going into the education field. I would be canned quickly because I would discipline the kids and refuse to each to the lowest learning levels in my class. Not every child has the capacity to learn or supportive parents to work with them to achieve academic succes.
ReplyDeleteMy issue is all the bitching about low pay and long hours. I work 8 - 6 or later M - F with 3 weeks vacation and 3 personal days after 6 years with the same company. I pay 70% of my health coverage, contribute 12% of my salary to my 401k because a pension is not offered. I do receive a big 3% match though, yahoo! My wife works longer hours and no pension.
We make roughly what a teacher makes for our respective time on the job with no "tenure" or job security. We work more hours per year with less time off and cannot retire after 25 years with state paid funds and insurance to carry us into our golden years and yet we are happy and don't
bitch. So buck up little cowboy.