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Are You Sick Of ‘Highly Paid’ Teachers? (HUMOR)

As found on addictinginfo.org:

By Author Unknown (if you know who wrote it, PLEASE let me know)

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.

To all of the teachers out there: YOU ARE APPRECIATED! Don’t let those who just don’t understand get you down. There are so many out there who DO know how important and needed you are, so please do not forget that. You deserve so much more respect and pay for what you do, and the day will come when it will happen. In the meantime, young minds are counting on you. I know it gets hard, but please DON’T EVER GIVE UP!

And to the aspiring teachers out there: Keep following your dream! No matter what injustices are happening in the education system right now, please do not get discouraged. YOU ARE NEEDED! Schools cannot survive without you! Things will get better only if more become teachers and keep fighting for public education and all who use it, especially the children. DON’T EVER GIVE UP!

In solidarity,

~*aquadonia*~

laughingsquid:

How to Dance Goth

Haha!! This is brilliant!!

PS: If you do not recognize the background music used during the instruction, consider yourself more fortunate than I. ;-)

This is exactly it. Everyone gets so upset about the cuts in services, education, and so on yet not enough of them are willing to pay the taxes that make it all possible. (See, our taxes pay for things like sewer systems, clean water, garbage pick, roads and the like, too.) Just mention raising taxes and everyone has a conniption fit, as the graphic shows.  But that’s why we have to pay taxes: To have the money to fund good public education, libraries, public services and on and on. So we can have the quality of life, education and so forth we require as individuals to be productive members of society and pursue our own version of our American Dreams. This is also why it’s so LUDICROUS and WRONG that corporations and the wealthiest in the country - those with the most money to give, mind you - pay so little or are exempt from paying taxes altogether. (After all, they are members of society as well. Shouldn’t they pay, too?) Because of THEM, OUR tax rates go up. In reality, we shouldn’t be so angry and outraged about paying the taxes themselves. It is true that we should be angry about the mismanagement of the money we pay in, but we should especially be angry that THEY don’t have to pay in like the rest of us do. This is one of the big reasons that we have the deficits we do: The people that should be paying/paying more aren’t. To off-set that, all of the things that we as people require for our quality of life is cut and slashed. We ALL lose out. There are so many things we should be protesting in this country. Maybe all of this with Madison will ignite people to fight all their other rights and needs, too. (And push back against the corporate/wealthy tax cuts.) Planned Parenthood is on the chopping block, too. Public news and educational networks, NPR & PBS are on the chopping block as well. There is SO MUCH that we’re poised to lose. It’s about more than just labor unions. It’s about more than taxes and balancing the budget now. It’s about constitutional rights, human rights and the quality of all of our lives. WAKE UP, AMERICA!!!

This is exactly it. Everyone gets so upset about the cuts in services, education, and so on yet not enough of them are willing to pay the taxes that make it all possible. (See, our taxes pay for things like sewer systems, clean water, garbage pick, roads and the like, too.) Just mention raising taxes and everyone has a conniption fit, as the graphic shows.  But that’s why we have to pay taxes: To have the money to fund good public education, libraries, public services and on and on. So we can have the quality of life, education and so forth we require as individuals to be productive members of society and pursue our own version of our American Dreams.

This is also why it’s so LUDICROUS and WRONG that corporations and the wealthiest in the country - those with the most money to give, mind you - pay so little or are exempt from paying taxes altogether. (After all, they are members of society as well. Shouldn’t they pay, too?) Because of THEM, OUR tax rates go up. In reality, we shouldn’t be so angry and outraged about paying the taxes themselves. It is true that we should be angry about the mismanagement of the money we pay in, but we should especially be angry that THEY don’t have to pay in like the rest of us do. This is one of the big reasons that we have the deficits we do: The people that should be paying/paying more aren’t. To off-set that, all of the things that we as people require for our quality of life is cut and slashed. We ALL lose out.

There are so many things we should be protesting in this country. Maybe all of this with Madison will ignite people to fight all their other rights and needs, too. (And push back against the corporate/wealthy tax cuts.) Planned Parenthood is on the chopping block, too. Public news and educational networks, NPR & PBS are on the chopping block as well. There is SO MUCH that we’re poised to lose. It’s about more than just labor unions. It’s about more than taxes and balancing the budget now. It’s about constitutional rights, human rights and the quality of all of our lives.

WAKE UP, AMERICA!!!