# Chateau de la Tobler

## Wednesday, July 18, 2007

### I thought this would be fun

I don't know if you will enjoy this as much as I did but after getting prickly, I started to laugh. $72,000 is about twice as much as I will be making next year. Sigh. But then, how many teachers do you know that got into the profession for the money.
TEACHER'S 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 people myself and I’d pay them baby-sitting wages. That’s right. Instead of us all paying outrageous taxes, I’d give them $3 an hour out of me own pocket for each of my kids. I’d only pay them for 5 hours a day, too- none of these coffee breaks, “preparation time”, correcting papers, after-hours sports or meetings. That would be a straight $15 per day per kid. Each parent should pay $15 to these teachers to baby-sit their children. Even if they have more than one child, it’s still a lot cheaper than private day care.
Let’s see now- how many children do they teach each day? Maybe an average of 25-30 in a class. Let’s day 27. That’s $15 X 27= $405 per day.
Hmmmmmmmm- sounds high. Ah, but remember they only have kids there 180 days a year. I’m not about to pay them for all those vacations! So $450 X 180 days = $72,000 a year. (Wait a minute! I think my calculator needs new batteries.)
Now, I know you teachers say, “What about those who have ten years experience and a Master’s Degree? Well, maybe to be fair, they could get minimum wage instead of just baby-sitting they could read the kids a story once in a while. We can round that figure off to $5 an hour X 5 hours X 27 children…… that’s $675 a day X 180 days= $121,500 per year.
Hmmmmmmm…. Wait a minute! Let’s get a little perspective around here. We are paying these teachers much less than we pay our neighbor’s high school teenager for babysitting. I think we should keep quiet about this – don’t you?
Author Unknown.

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