Baby sitters make more money than classroom teachers

Teaching is about a life time of service and sacrifice.

Public school teaching has always been less financially lucrative than virtually any other job that takes the same amount of education to qualify for. In fact teachers make less money, than babysitters do. Baby sitters usually get at least two dollars per child per hour. Most classroom teachers have about 32 students per class per hour multiply that 32 times seven hours a day times 180 days and you get about $80,640.

A baby sitter with no requirement to teach anything to her charges, no minimum educational requirements and in her very first year of babysitting can make more money than the average public school teacher who has 60 units of college credit and twenty years in her classroom.

Even according to disputed and significantly inflated statistics in the anti-teacher Sacramento Bee, the average public school teacher in California made $65,808 in 2008. The VUSD average was less, $63,443.

This SacBee teacher average pay distortion is still less than what a baby sitter would get for babysitting 32 children seven hours a day for 180 days. The SacBee average "teacher" salary included much better paying non-teaching, credentialed positions in the average.
http://www.sacbee.com/1098/story/995141.html?appSession=80478235118357

Teachers are among the finest people I have known in my life. They are a few of the true shining lights in our society. Long hours, horrible working conditions, constant threats to their persons and their careers; yet they seldom complain even as they are viciously attacked by con men on the radio like John and Ken KFI AM640, in print (the North County Times editorial page) and on Fake News on cable TV.