This was forwarded to me by a prof in our teacher ed dept. I thought it
was very interesting. Maybe teachers should just start sending parents a
bill per child ...
>
>                    TIRED OF THOSE HIGH PAID TEACHERS!
>
> I, for one, am sick and tired of those high paid  teachers.  Their hefty
> salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work nine or ten months a
> year!  It's time we 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. I  would give the $3 an hour and only the hours they worked, not
> any  of that  silly planning time.
>
> That would be $15 a day.  Each parent should pay $15 a day for these
> teachers to baby-sit their children.  Now, how many do they  teach in a
> day . . . maybe  25. Then that's 15 X 25 = $375 a day.  But remember they
> only work 180  days   a year!   I'm not going to pay them for any
> vacations.
>
> Let's see . . . that's  375 x 180=$67,500 (Hold  on, my calculator must
> need batteries!)
>
> What about those special teachers or the ones with masters degrees? Well,
> we  could pay them minimum wage just to be fair.  Let's  round it  off to
> $6 an  hour.  That would be $6 times 5 hours  times 25 children times 180
> days= $135,000 per year. Wait a minute, there is something wrong here!!!
> There  sure is, huh????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Send this to any teachers you may know.  OR PEOPLE WHO COMPLAIN ABOUT HOW
> THEIR TAX MONEY IS  SPENT!!!!
>
>
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