Today in the comment section following the highly inflammatory headline, "Vista:Teacher Union President Arrested" a bunch of our angry friends posted there usual CONfused comments that illuminate more their ignorance and anger than anything to do with the article, we had the following posting:
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Cranky said at 8:20pm on April 16, "Most (referring to teachers) are just highly payed babysitters."
See the article here: http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/vista/article_f05347f3-864d-5a8a-98aa-17390b9fd476.html?mode=story
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No, Cranky they are not. Babysitters would be paid at nearly triple the rate as school teachers are paid.
It has been more than twenty years since I had a small child in need of babysitting, but even then the going rate was $5 per hour per child.
In a typical underfunded California classroom there are 35 to 40 students for 6.5 hours per day. Let's take 35 students times 6.5 hours times $5 per hour, I get $1137 for one day. Typical sub rate is $100 per day. Salaried teacher rate can vary, but is slightly more than subs. However, even the highest paid teacher salaries are not in the same league with the babysitters' salaries, the babysitters would make far more per day than any public school teachers.
What about per year? Let's multiply that $1137 daily babysitter rate by 180 day school year--$204,750!
The top salary for a VUSD school teacher in the 2010-2011 school year was $78,612 and that is ONLY for the one or two older teachers in our entire district. These teachers must have spent at least thirty years teaching IN VUSD and must also have a master's degree AND 75 units of EXPENSIVE post graduate units.
Most teachers never get close to that salary. They are either not teachers exclusively in VUSD that long or paying for the EXPENSIVE post graduate units is too prohibitive on their miniscule salaries. Rent or post graduate units? Hmmm, which should I pay? Most teachers chose paying the rent.
So let's see one could become a 'rich' college graduate teacher who after paying off college debt and thirty years in a district in addition to laying out tens of thousands of personal money spent on post graduate work gets a mere 78.6K or a babysitter whose rates TWENTY years ago would come to nearly triple that amount.
No, Cranky, teachers are not babysitters. They just wish they were paid that well.
Here is the URL of the Vista Unified School District's teacher salary schedule: http://www.vusd.k12.ca.us/Departments/hr/certificatedHR/Certificated%20HR%20Documents/Teacher%20Salary%20Schedule%202010%20-%202011.pdf
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