Overpaid: Mmmhmmm

[kageisuke]

I stole this from xiao_huli_chan:

Teachers are Overpaid.

I'm fed up with these teachers and their hefty salary demands!!

What we need here is a little initiative! If I had my way, I'd pay these bludgers myself and I'd pay them babysitting wages. That's right! Instead of us paying outrageous taxes, I'd give them $3 an hour out of my own pocket for each of my children. I'd only pay them for 5 hours each day too, none of these coffee breaks and preparation time, correcting papers and after hours meetings or sport!

That would be a straight $15 per day per child. Each parent should have to pay $15 per day to these teachers to babysit their child. Even if you have more than one child, that is still a lot cheaper than day-care. Now perhaps, these chalkies will realise what they are really worth on the open market.

Let's see now... How many children do they teach every day? Maybe an average of 25-30 in a class? Say 27. That's $15/ child x 27 children/ class = $405 a day. Hmmm that sounds high. Ah, but remember, they only have the children there for 200 days a year. I'm not going to pay them for all those vacations or training days!!! To hell with that. Okay, how about $405/day x 200 days/year = $81 000 per year...

Wait a minute! Something is not right!

Some of these teachers say "what about those of us who have 10 years experience and an Educator's Degree (4 years at least) and are actually trying to teach your children something worthwhile?" Well, maybe to be fair we could round off their minimum wage off to about $5 an hour. That's cheap enough for that lot. So $5/child x 27 children/class x 5 hours/day x 200 days/year = $135 000 per year...

What is going on here???

Well it is clear we are paying our teachers less than half what we pay our neighborhood teenagers for babysitting our children. I think we should keep quiet about this.

Comments

[myreasoninlife.livejournal.com]

Amen.

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

On a stick \o

[myreasoninlife.livejournal.com]

As a person striving to be a professor this is so freaking true.

[strategic_guile]

I dunno. Don't professors get more pay than regular [highschool and under] teachers?

[myreasoninlife.livejournal.com]

They do but the pay really varies. If a person is just starting out the pay is quite low. Most of the time the pay one gets is the money used towards funding for research so it seems like you aren't really earning much.

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

Funding for research...?

[myreasoninlife.livejournal.com]

For some professors teaching at universities is just another thing to get an income. They focus more on their research and since funding for it is limited, they tend to spend their own money to make up for what they are not given.

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

Ohh, I see. Hrm.

[graficmemory.livejournal.com]

... I love enlightenment.

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

It should be sold in a bottle \o

[abandonreality.livejournal.com]

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

[bogenvelia.livejournal.com]

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

[crimsonhymn.livejournal.com]

[crimsonstarroad.livejournal.com]

:3

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

*boots*

[pridefall.livejournal.com]

Um. What.

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

:|?

[pridefall.livejournal.com]

idgi.

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

It's just making fun of how little teachers get paid.

[pridefall.livejournal.com]

OH. I get that, but I thought there was...more. -_-;;

[strategic_guile]

Ff. Nope. Babysitters at 10 bucks an hour get paid more than teachers. Tsk tsk. =o=

[contactcomfort.livejournal.com]

Can I yank this? 'Cause I may become a teacher, myself.

[strategic_guile]

Go ahead. I got it from someone else who got it from facebook of all places. [I think it was facebook].

I don't like kids. 8D Little smartasses. You can keep that teaching gig. :|

[contactcomfort.livejournal.com]

Eeeh if I do teach, it'll be at the middle or high school level. I will produce well-read chilluns who can form proper sentences. >:E

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

Fff. Go go go \o *gives you a whip to use*