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04-14-2008, 04:52 PM
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Source(?) Hubby got this as a handout at school, don't know if that source is the original or what, but thought it was worth sharing  Quote:
achers Just Babysitters
Reporter - Fred Farkle ... It’s been said a thousand times, and now it’s time to act. Teachers today are just babysitters for their students. Hamstrung by the “No Child Left Behind” act, ineffectual school districts that are more like petty bureaucracies and their inability to administer corporal punishment, teachers have been reduced to little more than babysitters. It’s time to treat them that way. Teachers' hefty salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work 9 or 10 months a year!
Let’s 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. That would be $19.50 a day (7:00 AM to 3:30 (or so) PM with just .25 min. off for lunch). Each parent should pay $19.50 a day for these teachers to baby-sit their children.
Now do the math. How many do they teach in a class, 30? So that's $19.50 x 30 =$585.00 a day. However, remember they only work 180 days a year!!! we're not going to pay them for any vacations. LET'S SEE... That's $585 x 180= $105,300 per year.
What about those special teachers and the ones with master's degrees? Well, we could just pay them minimum wage, and just to be fair, round it off to $7.00 an hour. That would be $7 x 6 ½ hours x 30 children x180 days = $245,700 per year.
Wait a minute, there's something wrong here! If an average teachers salary is $50,000/180 days = $277/per day /students = $9.23/6.5 hours = $1.42 per hour per student. A very inexpensive baby-sitter and they even try - with your help - to EDUCATE our kids! WHAT A DEAL... And we don't even have to buy pizza!
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04-14-2008, 04:54 PM
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Geez, I'd be one of those Masters people. Cheap babysitter is right!!!!
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04-14-2008, 04:55 PM
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Hubby too. It would be nice to have that kind of income on one salary, and without him having to do lesson planning and paper marking all weekend!
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It's extraordinary to me that the United States can find $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire G8 can't find $25 billion dollars to saved 25,000 children who die every day from preventable diseases.~ Bono
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04-14-2008, 05:01 PM
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Yeah--he will appreciate this one--I had 2 sets of tests to mark (3 classes of each--about 100 4-page tests in total). I did one set, and got through about 75% of the second set, and could not go on. I could not look at another paper. I stopped and never went back to it on Saturday.
Now I have to finish that set, and today I gave another test. Ugh. I'll never get done. Plus, I have all these environment projects coming in for Earth Day. Ugh.
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04-14-2008, 05:03 PM
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Wow. That article is amazing.
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