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"Their hefty salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work nine or ten months a year! It’s time we put things in perspective and pay them for what they do…baby-sit!"
So say many adults who are totally unaware of what teaching entails - i.e. having to be a learning facilitator, counsellor, mentor, individual educator, parent, etc etc
A friend and I worked this following calculation out during one of our 'many weeks of holidays' having had yet another ignorant adult tell us we were just 'glorified babysitters and child minders'.
We can get that for less than minimum wage. That’s right. I would give them £3.00 an hour and only the hours they worked, not any of that silly planning, preparation and assessment time. That would be £19.50 a day (7:45 AM to 4:00 PM with 45 min. off for lunch).
Each parent should pay £19.50 a day for these teachers to baby-sit their children. Now, how many 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 £585×180 = £105,300 per year. (Hold on … My calculator must need batteries!)
What about those special teachers and the ones with Master’s degrees? Well, we could pay them minimum wage just to be fair, £5.52 an hour. That would be £5.52 times 6.5 hours times 30 children times 180 days = £193,752.00 per year. Wait a minute, there is something wrong here!
(Average teacher salary £21,000/180 days = £116.66 per day/30 students = £3.88/ 6.5 hours = £0.59 per hour per student.)
Very inexpensive babysitter and they even educate your kids!
