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From the JokeDesk:
Teachers
Salaries
By
Anonymous Contributor
Teachers are paid too
much! I'm fed up with teachers and their hefty salaries for only
nine months' work. What we need here is a little perspective.
If I had my way, I'd pay teachers babysitting
wages. That's right - instead of paying the outrageous taxes
that go towards teaching salaries, I'd give them $3.00 an hour.
And, I'm only going to pay them for their five hours' classroom time,
not planning time. That would be $15.00 a day. Each
parent should pay $15.00 a day for these teachers to babysit their
children. Even if they have more than one child, it's still
cheaper than private daycare.
Now, how many children do they teach a day - maybe
twenty? That's $15.00 X 20 = $300.00 a day. But remember, they
only work 180 days a year! I'm not going to pay them for all
their vacations: $300 X 180 = $54,000. (Just a minute, my
calculator must need batteries).
What will teachers say about those who have ten years
of experience and a master's degree? Well, maybe - just to be
fair - they could get the minimum wage. We can round that off
to about $6.00 an hour, times five hours, times twenty
children. $6.00 X 5 X 20. That's $600 a day times 180 days, or
$108,000.
Wait a minute...there is something wrong here... |
TeacherViews
by an Anonymous Author
Over the last couple of weeks, mostly due to the behavior of some friends
who've let me know they know more about education that do I - in spite of
my 30 years in the biz - I've been doing some thinking. After
considerable thought and a couple glasses of Chablis, I think I am
beginning to understand why teachers enjoy such low status in most
communities.
And, when
you think of it, it's really quite simple. Ask an accountant how to
add a couple of numbers and you'll likely be told that such a skill
requires years of special and expensive education and the passage of a
demanding and discriminating test. Ask some dumb math teacher
how do it, and he'll likely be so delighted you asked him you won't be
able to stop his explanation until he gets to the extraction of
cube roots.
More and more I am of the opinion that teachers are looked down on because
they give away what they know, a violation of the principles of
capitalism. (One of the other reasons is teachers are perceived as some
kind of inferior being, as
you will see from the responses, if any, to this post, is that so
many of them buy into their own inferiority - as if it were a badge
of honour.)
You're familiar
with the story of the physician and lawyer who met at a social
event.? After having been introduced, the physician asked the lawyer
what he did when he was asked for legal advice in a social environment.
"Oh" he said, "I bill them." Two days later, the
doctor get a bill.
What do you think
would be the response if you did something like that ?
And then there is
the question of "accountability." If you're in public
education your passing and failing rates (like your salary) are probably a
matter of public record. Can you find out how many cases your lawyer
lost, how many patients of your physician are dead or have gone to someone
else, how many customers of your accountant have been audited by the
I.R.S. ? You bet your sweet ass you can't and if you try to find out
you will be told how complicated it all is, how there is this and that
variable that can't be qualified or is so subjective it eludes
quantification. But what about your job ? Well, that's a
different kettle of fish. You know what a lot if it is ? - I just
realized - too many teachers wallow in being an inferior
people. If they were respected representatives of their communities
who were believed to really know something about what they did, they would
probably find some other kind of work so their aspirations to sainthood
and sacrifice could be better realized.
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