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Originally Posted by jebartle
IMHO...Can not understand why we are arguing about a McDonald's employee making an increase up to $15.00 an hour, when the backbone of our childrens future are in the hands of our under-paid new teachers making $35,000...Where is the incentive for our college bound students to teach when they can make the same flipping hamburgers!....In the meantime our politicans are
spending millions on sports stadiums and at the same time laying-off our teachers....I don't get it!
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Well...if you did the math...something a teacher should have taught you... You'd see that your McDonalds worker making $15 an hour when working the SAME number of hours a typical teacher contracts for in a year...makes a grand total of $21,600 That assumes 8 hours a day for 180 days, a normal teachers contract. So, the teacher is making substantially more per the same number of hours worked. A teacher making $35,000 a year earns $34 an hour. A teacher making $80,000 a year is making $55 an hour. And I don't think a typical teacher is "working harder" than a typical McDonalds worker. Depending on your definition of "work". They're both dealing with unruly idiots all day...
Teachers have quite a racket already, I sometimes wonder why they make all the noise about how "unfair" they have it. Who else gets a couple of months off every summer? Two weeks off here...two weeks off there... Weekends, holidays off... I don't get why you're always complaining...
If I ran things, schools would be open Mon-Fri only closed during federal holidays like most people have it. Parents go through hell trying to arrange day care during all your holidays and vacations.