Pay a teacher as a babysitter, you may be suprised what happens.

The great thing about being a teacher is that when the summer months roll around I can be soaking up the sun and enjoying some time to myself. Now I can already hear what you're saying if you're not a teacher (if you are you are probably not even going to read this until the fall since you're enjoying your break already) "Must be nice to have the summers off." I hear this constantly and it does get annoying after a while. I'd like to throw this little bit of information out. Some people think that we teachers should get paid for just babysitting and guess what...I'm okay with that! I found this post in the Omaha Newsstand:

"Since school teachers are really just glorified babysitters, let's just pay teachers the going rate for babysitting.

Let's pay them $3 an hour per kid, and they work 8-4, with a half-hour lunch. After all, why should we pay them for 'planning' or to eat?

So that's 7.5 working hours a day, and an elementary teacher works with about 20 kids a day.

So $3 X 7.5 hours a day X 20 kids = $450.00.

And I'm sure not paying them for weekends (more 'planning') and I'm sure not paying them for summers off for 'training' or advanced 'education,' so really, we are only going to pay them for 180 days a year.

So $450.00 X 180 = $81,000.

And just to be nice, if you have a master's degree, I'll give you $4.00 an hour.

That means we are going to pay teachers/babysitters $81,000 to $108,000 a year and not a penny more!"

According to the Columbus Dispatch, the average teacher in Columbus makes $59,713. This figure is still $21,287 less than a babysitter would make for the amount of work s/he would be doing!! If you ask my opinion, I'll let you pay me as a babysitter and I'll educate your kids too! The moral of this story..."Don't walk up to an educator and say that it must be nice to have summers off."

Ben Baker said:

Thanks for the comments! I guess if we teachers wanted to make lots of money, we wouldn't teach....but it would still be nice. *grin* Keep checking back for more stuff when August rolls around. I've been enjoying my summer a little too much it seems!

July 10, 2008

Ben the Beach Bum said:

Yeah, it would have been nice for my mom to have made that kind of money when we were growing up.

Ben the Beach Bum

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Greg Albing said:

Hah, amen brother. And thanks for the list in the last post, not to mention all the good information for first-year-teachers-to-be like myself!

Keep in touch, and enjoy the summer, smilies/cool.gif

-Greg

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