Posted on 12/12/2011 7:28:29 AM PST by MichCapCon
Last May, while criticizing Gov. Rick Snyder’s proposed budget cuts to schools, Ithaca Public Schools Superintendent Nathan Boortz asked Snyder to “make my school a prison.”
Boortz wrote a letter to the editor saying prisons enjoyed more luxuries and received more funding than public schools in Michigan.
But Michigan’s teachers probably wouldn’t want to make that transition considering they make on average about $12,200 more a year than prison guards.
Michigan’s 5,000-plus prison guards make an average of $50,803 in 2009-2010, according to a Freedom of Information Act request. The prison guards’ salary information contains gross wages, including overtime. The average teacher salary in Michigan for 2009-2010 was $63,024, according to data from the Michigan Department of Education.
Teachers in the state of Michigan generally work about 180 days in a school year, or about 1,440 hours based on a 40-hour work week. Prison guards work 2,080 hours a year, according to a Department of Corrections official...
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“If you don’t eat yer meat, you can’t have any pudding!
Hey! Teachers! Leave those kids alone!”
In Wisconsin, the prison guards have got a scam going in which they arrange to be scheduled for two consecutive 8-hour shifts, call in “sick” for the first of the two shifts, then, miraculously, eight hours later they’re healed and show up for the second shift, and, because it’s their second scheduled shift, they get paid double-time for it.
YEp, this is all this automatic vote, promotion and imprisonment.
It’s a nation of government convenience now, heading for complete chaos, bankruptcy and catastrophy.
Loot loot loot, just like the ignorant in chief, so called religion of peace muslim president of ours.
Feminists and muslims, two animalistic peas in a pod.
Depends on which side of the bars they are on
TT
What’s the difference?
Tough call
Considering that many teachers are little more than wardens
watching over kids until they can be sent to a proper
correctional facility....
With more accountability in the educational system we might not need so many prison guards.
Exactly so.
Not to mention, with fewer teachers who rape and molest the kids they’re supposed to be teaching.
The question is a trick question. They are both “according to the Occupoopers” worth exactly the same. What the Occupoopers won’t tell us is that both are worth not one penny more than the minimum wage.
If you get rid of the prison guard and teacher unions and let the free market set the price you might get a realistic answer. The only valid question to ask at the moment is, “which union rips off the taxpayers the most?”
Top 100 Teacher Salaries for 2011: Phys. Ed Teacher Heads List with $203,154.
December 12, 2011 By Bill Zettler Leave a Comment
As Illinois citizens struggle with the severe economic downturn plaguing the state, Illinois public school employees enjoy another record year of salaries, fringe benefits and pensions. In 2011 an amazing 14,866 public school employees made more than $100,000, up 18% from 2010’s 12,588.
See Top 100 Teachers Salary here in Excel 2010 format.
See Top 100 Teachers Salary here in PDF format.
Apparently there is no tax money for the barren shelves at food pantries or the lack of beds at homeless shelters or to support the handicapped. But there IS enough tax money to pay for:
A Phys. Ed teacher $203,154 for a 9 month work year.
14,866 teachers made more than $100,000 in 2011.
21 who made more over $1,000/day ($170,000/yr.)
A Drivers Ed teacher who salary is $18,222/month to teach teenagers how to parallel park.
13 teachers make more than the Governor’s $177,500.
Top 100 Teachers average $18,169 per month salary ($163,579/yr).
And all of that is for a 36-week work-year (182 day contracts).
These Top 100 Salaries Do Not Include Massive Amounts of Fringe Benefits.
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