Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "November 2nd -Request a Cut in Taxes":
POB Teachers should be overpaid because other district teachers are overpaid?
This situation proves that we have created an entitlement system in our tax structure. Teacher's expect and feel they are entitled to raises because other educators somewhere else have gotten one. Can you imagine trying to employ that logic in any other context?
Goto seethroughny.net to see if your child's teacher is underpaid after a 2% raise from their current salary for 6 hours work/10 months a year.
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To be fair, the teacher work day is more than 6 hours but there is less than 10 months when you consider summer vacation, holidays, winter breaks, spring breaks, etc. There are also other allowable days off. So maybe it would be more accurate to say how many school days there are - which is about 180. Divide by 5 days in week to get 36 weeks, which is probably closer to 9 months (even less when you include personal days off).
ReplyDeleteSo 9 months is more than 10 (to be fair)...huh? Must be the new math.
ReplyDeleteParents truly are blind as to what goes on behind the scenes... Yes, there's only 180 days of standing in front of your children, but nearly every "vacation" is a working one. Papers always need to be read and graded, work plans need to be drawn, tests and quizzes need to be written. There's only so much a teacher can do in the few hours after the kids are gone each day, and most of that time is spent doing some one on one extra help for students having issues.
ReplyDeleteWhy would you assume to know what goes on in the minds of our teachers? Sit with one all night every night listening to the stories of spoiled children, obsessive parents , and wishy washy administrators, and you'll change your mind about what teachers deserve.
Your logic is flawed.