The following chain letter was sent to my e-mail this evening:
TIRED OF THOSE HIGH PAID TEACHERS!
I, for one, am sick and tired of those high paid teachers.
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!
We can get that for less than minimum wage. That's
right.........I would give them $3 dollars an hour and only
the hours they worked, not any of that silly planning time.
That would be $15 a day. Each parent should pay $15 a day
for these teachers to baby-sit their children. Now, how many
do they teach in a day....maybe 25.
Then that's 15 X 25=$375 a day. But remember they only work
180 days a year!
I'm not going to pay them for any vacations.
Let's see... that's 375 x 180=$67,500.00 (Hold on, my
calculator must need batteries!)
What about those special teachers or the ones with Masters
Degrees? Well, we could pay them minimum wage just to be
fair. Let's round it off to $6 an hour. That would be $6
times 5 hours times 25 children times 180 days=$135,000.00
per year. Wait a minute, there is something wrong here!!!
There sure is, huh????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After reading this I pointed out to my friend that, although we may or may not pay teachers too little in this country, the above argument proves this no more than
this equation proves women are evil.
Take that for what you will.
