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!!!! > > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Johanna Rubba Assistant Professor, Linguistics English Department, California Polytechnic State University One Grand Avenue • San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 Tel. (805)-756-2184 • Fax: (805)-756-6374 • Dept. Phone. 756-259 • E-mail: [log in to unmask] • Home page: http://www.cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/