Posted on 06/17/2011 7:31:50 AM PDT by MichCapCon
In Royal Oak, the school district decided that it was going to charge an extra $50 for students who wanted to play a second sport in the middle school. Meanwhile, the teachers’ union contract states that a first year middle school football coach would see a salary increases of 35.1 percent in year two, 26.2 percent in year three, 20.7 percent in year four, and 27.9 percent in year five before reaching the top of the scale. Over a five-year period, the middle school football coach’s salary would go from $1,136 in the first year to $2,995 during the fifth year.
Although a single coach’s salary may seem inconsequential, athletics are big-budget items to school districts. Royal Oak spent $591,782 on athletics in 2010, an 11.5-percent increase over 2009, according to Michael Van Beek, education policy director at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. When a school district hires a teacher to add coaching duties to their job classification, it must also make mandatory pension contributions and pay FICA taxes on the coach’s salary. For Royal Oak, pension and FICA costs for coaches were $57,231 in 2010.
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More schools should take this approach. The funding for optional extracurricular activities should come from those who wish to participate in said activities.
$2995 for a coaching stipend. If you put in the hours that it takes to be a football coach, it is just north of 300 hours per season, so that comes to about $10 per hour to herd cats for 12 weeks.
Oh.....this comes from Michigan. Not like they overpay their teachers there.
“Here! Here! Look at the coach’s pay! Don’t look at the teacher’s pay!”
Herding cats is not the problem...herding parents is where the headache begins.
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