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A most relevant exercise in simple mathematics.
This was being forwarded all over both the schools that I teach at today:
I would like to add:
1. 30 students a day? I wish! The average teacher at the high school where I work teaches 130 students a day. Technically we're not supposed to teach more than 150 students per day, but the school is notorious for ignoring that district-mandated limit. Many of my co-workers teach quite a few more than 150 students per day, especially the math teachers.
2. In case you weren't aware, one of the requirements in NCLB is that all public school teachers must have a Master's degree.
3. In case anybody reading this is unfamiliar with a teacher's calendar and didn't pick up on the sarcasm, no, we do not work only 180 days a year and we DEFINITELY don't work only six hours a day. (For example, I arrive at school at 7 a.m. and usually don't leave until after 5 p.m.)
Are you sick of highly 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 - babysit! 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, 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. However, remember they only work 180 days a year!!! I am not going to pay them for any vacations.
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!!!!
Make a teacher smile; repost this to show appreciation for all educators.
I would like to add:
1. 30 students a day? I wish! The average teacher at the high school where I work teaches 130 students a day. Technically we're not supposed to teach more than 150 students per day, but the school is notorious for ignoring that district-mandated limit. Many of my co-workers teach quite a few more than 150 students per day, especially the math teachers.
2. In case you weren't aware, one of the requirements in NCLB is that all public school teachers must have a Master's degree.
3. In case anybody reading this is unfamiliar with a teacher's calendar and didn't pick up on the sarcasm, no, we do not work only 180 days a year and we DEFINITELY don't work only six hours a day. (For example, I arrive at school at 7 a.m. and usually don't leave until after 5 p.m.)
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Hats off to you for being a teacher; it's a really important and underappreciated job (and I'm not just saying this because of my parents, I have had a lot of wonderful teachers).
In case you weren't aware, one of the requirements in NCLB is that all public school teachers must have a Master's degree.
NCLB?
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I work at a middle school (I run their photocopiers 'cause for some reason a lot of LAUSD teachers have very high tendencies to break them....) For a lot of the teachers, it is a thankless job, and these days it seems like more and more students just don't seem to give a damn about their school work.
I didn't know the the NCLB required teachers to have Masters' degrees. Hmm....I wonder how many teachers are getting away with not having one?
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Hmm....I wonder how many teachers are getting away with not having one?
Probably zero. State laws tend to be incredibly strict about these sorts of things. In Kentucky the rule is that after your initial licensure as a teacher, you have a five-year window to complete half of your Masters and an eight-year window to complete it. If you fail to complete your Masters within the alloted time frame your license gets taken away, period.
Oh my freakin' goddess
As if it wasn't hard enough being a teacher as it is in this day and age, now they want to dock their pay? Sure, some teachers aren't all that great, and I've seen some of the other staff act even worse, but I loved alot of my teachers in my highschool, and more in my middle school. This just...just...
*insert 'cune rage*
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But like even though I've had several teachers in the past who were just awful at teaching, I don't think all teachers should get pay cuts. Cos I mean they're the ones teaching the future minds of America! They're the ones giving them knowledge. I've always thought that teachers should get payed for how well they teach their students overall, not each student individually cos one that would make the process too difficult and some kids just don't do the work or just don't wanna learn.
And also pfff 30 kids a day? Yeah right. I'm always hearing my high school teachers mention that they teach 180+ students a day.(My school is big >.>) And I remember in my Biology honors class last year there were at least 60 kids in there while in my friend's class there were 80!