Are you sick of highly paid teachers?

[tpsbmam]

Are you sick of highly paid teachers?

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!!!!

[abq e streeter]

1. Proud to be first rec.

:thumbsup:

[somone]

2. I'm sick of overpaid superintendents and their mercenaries

[grahamhgreen]

3. I'm sick of privatization. Brilliant!

[ThomCat]

4. I always say that I might be sick of high paid teachers if

If I knew of any. But all I hear are boogie-men and fair-tails about big, bad overpaid teachers. I know over half a dozen adults who really are teachers, and I guarantee that none of them are highly paid.

When I was able to work (I'm out on disability now) I made more money than any of them did.

I worked a corporate management consultant, specializing in telecom management and outsourcing. Sounds kind of impressive,right? But if teachers are so damned overpaid, shouldn't they have been making more than I was?

After all, their job educating kids to reach their potential as smart kids is what allows some kid like me to grow up to be a smart-ass corporate consultant, right? I certainly hope that most people agree that a teacher's job is more important than mine and deserves more pay.

So why don't they get more pay than me? And why would anyone complain if they do? They're worth it. Right?

[underseasurveyor]

5. Rec'd and well played

:thumbsup:

[AlabamaLibrul]

6. I asked this the last time it was copy/pasted - what about those who can't afford the $10,000 a

year for their special needs child's education? And I assume this is per child, no sibling discount, what about those with 3 kids?

[AlabamaLibrul]

12. Anyone?

[PVnRT]

16. I think you just completely missed the point

[AlabamaLibrul]

19. Not really - this is being bandied about like it's an actual policy proposal, I treat it as one n/t

[AnneD]

7. Excellent...

If you don't mind...I would like to steal your idea to present to our board and legislators. This gives a great perspective and takes the wind out of some of these pontificating bastards.

[tpsbmam]

8. It's not mine -- I pulled it off of facebook. The author encourages

people to share it, so share away!

[leveymg]

9. I'm married to one - "highly paid" she's not. Nor is she a babysitter.

Geez Louise, RW talking points make me sick.

[PVnRT]

17. Right-wing talking points?

Man, sarcasm really is lost on the internet.

[leveymg]

20. I've seen RW rants that say that teachers are "overpaid babysitters."

So, my nausea is reality-based. The OP -- which I appreciate is snarky, and well-argued snark, at that -- is reflecting actual GOP talking points.

[Initech]

10. What I'm really sick of are these overpaid white collar business criminal scumfucks.

And then they have the balls to say anyone who actually does the work is "overpaid". :argh:

[roxiejules]

11. Wall Street CEO average pay was only 9.25 million

http://www.aflcio.org/corporatewatch/paywatch/

A chief executive officer of a Standard & Poor’s (S&P) 500 index company was paid, on average, $9.25 million in total compensation in 2009.

[MichiganVote]

13. And most of them are no better educated...when was the last time

a teacher drove the entire economy into the ditch?

[trof]

14. K&R and passed along. Thanks! n/t

[creon]

15. They are not

Teachers are not paid that well.

But, the bottom line is that many in the uSA do not value education and do not respect teachers.

[Ganja Ninja]

18. Excellent

:thumbsup:

[closeupready]

21. If the non-primary breadwinner in every nuclear family had to stay home and educate their children,

they would be much worse off financially than they are today with "overpaid" educators.

K&R

[DirkGently]

22. The unquestioning dumping of $ in wars & the scrimping over already-underpaid teachers says it all.

[midnight]

23. No . But I'm tired of highly paid bankers.....