The fallacy Is here:
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.
Put another way, $19.50 per day X 180 school days per year is only $3,510 per student per year — or $105,300 per year for a class of 30 kids. Considering the state already spends more than 3X that amount per student each year, we should logically cut teacher’s pay and benefits by 65%, right ?
Or maybe teachers should stop using ridiculous arguments like this and start questioning their whole system as to where all the money is going. If WI offered school vouchers for $5,000/yr per student, it could cut taxes in half and the good teachers could open their own schools accepting the vouchers and earn a $150K/yr salary.