This person mentions baby-sitting 3 times. That’s all you need to know about her “dedication” to her students.
They’re being paid to provide a service - education - not for piece work - if they really think they can get $500/day for babysitting 30 kids at a time, maybe they should quit teaching and open a private babysitting business.....
It was posted by several of my younger FB “friends’ yesterday. Touching as can be.
I’m tired of whining teachers. If they don’t feel appreciated, they should get the hell out of teaching.
Imagine if we all used the same logic and divided our daily salaries by the number of customers we serve.
Let's see now:
I hypothetical supermarket clerk earns $100 per day and serves 80 customers. That's $1.25 per customer--ungrateful slobs!
And the noble supermarket clerk has to put up with parents and their screaming kids, keep shopping carts in line, memorize the daily specials, count out change, make sure no one with more than 11 items goes through the express lane, and sometimes even do clean up on Aisle 5.
All for a mere $12.50 per hour! Just so you can hear a cheery voice ask "paper or plastic" as you swipe your credit card.
Oh the indignity of it all. It's nothing less than slave labor! Yet these poor supermarket clerks work selflessly day in and day out, just so you, the unappreciative masses, can have the convenience of purchasing all your food at a single place.
So this teacher wants to have a commission instead of a salary?
I’ll go along with that!
And, by charging the parents around $20 per day, those in town who don’t have children in school wouldn’t have to pay - property taxes would fall - I’ll go along with that.
If the teacher on commission wants to teach in a classroom they would need to pay expenses out of their commission for building expenses, lease, mortgage, operating expenses etc. Much like a hairdresser who rents a chair in a salon.
They would not be protected under a union and would need to secure their own health insurance, retirement and pay quarterly taxes. I’ll go along with that.
If the child did not learn, much like a hairdresser that gave lousy haircuts - the parents could go elsewhere easily.
If a teacher needed remedial help in the classroom, they could pay for it. If they wanted a bus to deliver students to them they could pay for it themselves.
I’m liking this more and more.
I think it’s fabulous!
Well, it gets to the heart of the matter. Teachers are nothing more than overpaid babysitters.
dear moose, pls copy and paste what 27 posted in #60 and send it reply all to the “teacher” and her pals.
Wow! I posted this, wrapped up family time and went to bed. In the meantime, you guys did great!
Do teachers want to be treated as professionals or as line workers? I am sick to death of hearing about the papers they grade and the planning. What do they think other professionals do, just show up on the job? if you want hourly pay then work on the line somewhere, but stop the bellyaching about the time spent outside of school. NO OTHER profession gets 3 months off, where anyone so inclined could supplement their annual salaries.
I do not think anyone is suggesting that teacher’s salaries be reduced to minimum wage. If left to the market like other professions teachers salaries would be paid commensurate with the value they produce. Good teachers should get more money than mediocre teachers. However the unions have totally messed up this idea with tenure and have resisted attempts to evaluate teacher performance and giving merit pay to those who are better teachers. Add to this the educational establishment that forces anyone wanting to teach to spend much of their college class time in next to worthless education classes and not the academic areas they want to teach. It is no wonder that the educational performance of our kids is lagging far behind the rest of the world.
But taxpayers actually fork over about $11,000 per child. That generates $330,000 for a class of 30. Maybe the ‘teacher’ should be asking where all that money is going?
Sorry, but the teacher's point is sound. I know quite a few teachers, and they tend to be hard workers who put in a lot of long hours.
I would absolutely love to see a TV reality show featuring folks who think teachers have it easy, taking over a classroom for a few months. Most of them would die in a puddle.
i found the fact that a teacher needs a calculator to do simple multiplication hilarious!