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All those high paid teachers....
By Anonymous
Apr 23, 2008, 14:05 PST
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RE: Tired of Those High Paid Teachers
Had she bothered to do some research by visiting a classroom for a day or two, she would find out that teachers are not just baby sitters, but also waitresses, ministers, referees, psychologists, press secretaries, test administrators, secretaries, mothers, among other things. We are expected to make sure that twenty + kids, all of whom learn differently and have different problems at home, pass the annual standardized tests, yet we aren't supposed to teach to the test.
What cracks me up though, is that the writer believes that each parent should pay teachers 15.00 as a babysitting fee. Let's see....that's $15.00 per child per day. I have 21 students in my class, so that works out to 315.00 per day. About 1500.00 a week, 6,000.00 per month, 10 months a year (since you don't want to pay for my vacations) and i've just made 60,000.00 per year -- twice what i make right now.
I like your style. You should run for office.
Editor's Note: It appears that this teacher did not understand that the original article was a satirical rant about how teachers are horribly underpaid. The point of the article was that we pay a babysitter with virtually no training better than we pay most of our teachers. Although after this reader went back through the math, we think she finally got it.
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