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underpants

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Mon Apr 16, 2012, 07:41 PM Apr 2012

Are You Sick Of ‘Highly Paid’ Teachers? (HUMOR) [View all]

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!

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.


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!!!!


http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/04/15/are-you-sick-of-highly-paid-teachers/

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A kick from a teacher sagesnow Apr 2012 #1
Yes, teachers do rule. RebelOne Apr 2012 #2
and I'll give it a kick too...only NOT humor... angstlessk Apr 2012 #3
:) nt mbperrin Apr 2012 #4
An oldie but a goodie Lifelong Protester Apr 2012 #5
K&R nt abelenkpe Apr 2012 #6
That's put things in perspective. nt Honeycombe8 Apr 2012 #7
k&r... spanone Apr 2012 #8
An oldie but a goodie!! Happy to K and R this!! nt riderinthestorm Apr 2012 #9
A Board of Education member gave me this at a negotiations meeting cmd Apr 2012 #10
I had not seen this before.. Why label it "humor" annabanana Apr 2012 #11
I wish! demtenjeep Apr 2012 #12
Something's wrong... Scuba Apr 2012 #13
K&R.... AnneD Apr 2012 #14
I did an equation like this back in 2006.......... mrmpa Apr 2012 #15
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