High Priced Teachers

Are you sick of high paid teachers? Teachers’ hefty salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work 9 or 10 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. Let’s give them $3.00 an hour and pay them for only the hours they worked. We are not paying for planning time, lunch or any time they spend before or after school. So if she teaches from 8:00 until 3:00 that would only be a 7 hour day. But let‘s not forget that we are not going to pay them for prep and lunch. So let‘s say they work a six hour day. That means they should be paid ($3/hour X 6 hours) $18 a day. That would be cheaper than any day care in town.

So each parent should pay $18.00 a day for these teachers to baby-sit their children. My children’s teachers have an average of 30 students in class. So that means each teacher would make ($18 X 30) $540 a day.

Now let’s remember that teachers only work 185 days a year. There is no way I am paying them for weekends, vacations and breaks. So if each teacher is making $540/day, they should be making ($540 X185) $99,900 a year! What?!

What about those special education teachers and the ones with Master’s degrees? Anyone working in the cooperate world makes more when they have more education and training. So, we could give them a salary increase and 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 hours X 30 children X 185 days = $266,400 per year. 

Wait a minute — there’s something wrong here! I am quite confident that the teachers at the nearby school do not make anywhere near $100,000 or $200,000 a year. If they did I would actually concider going back to work.  The average teacher’s salary (nation wide) is significantly lower at $50,000.

Let‘s do that math and see what they are actually getting paid. $50,000/185 days = $270.00 a day. Divided by 30 children is $9.00 A DAY!! Not an hour…$9.00 a day. And if they only work their six hours a day, they would make $1.50 a hour. See if you can find a babysitter to work for that price AND educate your child in the process