Since teachers do so little and are paid so much - why don't you join them?
You too could revel in a relaxing, highly paid part time job. Could it be you don't believe what YOU are whining about?
BTW - I'm USAF, and don't care what teachers make. Teacher's salaries are a small part of the school budget. Figure the average class size multiplied by the average student cost runs maybe $230K/year. Few teachers make a third of that - so most of the cost is in buildings and admin.
Mr. Rogers, An amendment to your statement;) I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night...
Teachers' salaries are not a small part of the school budget. In fact, you can make the argument that they represent the largest part of a school system's operating budget. Here's how:
School budgets are classifed by funds and the sources of these funds dictate how they can be spent. In most states, the bulk of salaries, benefits, utilities, gasoline for buses, purchased goods, and so on are in the general operating fund. Costs for property and buildings are in a separate fund, sometimes called capital outlay. There are other smaller funds in school systems - but these two funds are usally the biggest.
Employee costs (salaries, benefits such as retirement, insurance) range from 65 to 80% or more of the general operating fund of a school system. You can verify this yourself using Algor's invention;)
Employee costs (salaries and benefits) can be further classified as:
Next, some other data:
Therefore... teachers represent the bulk of operating expenses for a school system.
When people discuss *operating costs* of schools, the initial costs of the building or land acquisition are excluded. Building utility and building maintenance costs are usually folded into operating costs.
Don't interpret any of the above as a call for higher teacher salaries. Just wanted to correct the perception that teacher salaries represent a small part of a school's budget.