Are you sick of highly paid teachers? Teachers' hefty salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work 9 or 10 months a year! It's time we put things in perspective and pay them for what they do - babysit! We can get that for less than minimum wage. That's right Let's give them £5.93 an hour and only the hours they work; not any of that silly planning time, or any time they spend before or after ......school. That would be £ 41.51 a day (8.30 am to 3:30 PM with 60 min. off for lunch and play -- that equals 7 1/2 hours). Each parent could pay £ 41.51 a day for these teachers to babysit their children. Now how many children do they teach in a day...32? So that's £ 41.51 x 32 = £ 1328.32 a day. However, remember they only work 180 days a year!!! I am not going to pay them for any holidays LET'S SEE.... That's £1328.32 X 180= £239,097.6 0 per year. (Hold on! My calculator needs new batteries). What about those special education teachers and the ones with Master's degrees? Well, we could pay them minimum wage (£ 6.90), and just to be fair, round off to £ 7.00 an hour. That would be £ 7.00 X 71/2 hours X 32 children X 180 days = £ 302,400.00 per year. Wait a minute -- there's something wrong here! There sure is! The average teacher's salary (nationwide) is £ 25,000.00/ 180 days = £ 138.90 per day/ 32 children = £ 4.34 / 7 1/2 hours = £ 0.58 per hour per student--a very inexpensive babysitter and they even EDUCATE your kids!) WHAT A DEAL!!!! Al. :england:
nice one, but I should not smile, very true Al The first model works in Korea for the Hagwon's but only for the owners not the teachers and the teachers they hire really are baby sitters as the Koreans are usually still crap at foreign languages after many years schooling in these cram schools.
Turn that into a full draft of a letter and send it into the Daily Mail. UKIP might use it in their manifesto...
How many hours do teachers work in a week, Al? I am not having a go at teachers but us agency drivers do 60 to 70 hours a week, crammed into 5 days. We get paid well but personally speaking, I am destroyed at the end of day 5, I mean brain-fried......splat! I often wish I was a teacher, but I could be wrong about the hours they do. It has always seemed an easier life to me.
Al, what about those who own private music schools and do a weeeee bit of teaching ... (emphasis on the "weeee bit)!???
My daughter is a teacher and she gets in to the school around 8:30am and often finishes at the actual school after 8pm, plus she gives up a lot of personal time to take the kids on outdoor trips. Personally I have never envied teachers, I have a good few friends who have worked as teachers and more than one has suffered mental health issues from the stress of the job. I think teaching is one of those professions that really does qualify for the term vocation.
OK Mike - speaking from personal experience - when I was a classroom teacher I had 27.5 contact hours with the kids. Add to that about 2 to 3 hours meetings and maybe 10 to 12 hours marking and planning - that is per week. A lot of teachers (myself included) do extra-curricular activities - clubs and such - although this is not mandatory. Therefore, a conscientious teacher might work for 40 to 44 hours a week. When I 'climbed the ladder' however, I could have put myself into an early grave with all the work!! I used to try to limit myself to 12 hours a day. I cannot give you a true percentage on these figures - as I say I am speaking from my experience - and I reckon myself to be a pretty dedicated teacher. Some will do a lot less - some may even do more. Hope this helps! :england: Al.
In the Uk don't we work the longest hours in the whole of europe? Personally I work a minimum of 84 hours / week, normally its about 90hours when i'm away on ship. The plus side of course is when I'm home I do bugger all...........apart from the ever growing list of jobs the wife has for me on my arrival home!!!!
