[wintertime]

Or lets look at a daycare. My local daycare charges me $20 a day. So, $20 times 25 students is $500 a day, at 185 days is $92,500. Please, pay me like a daycare.


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Stop WHINING!

If you want $92,000 a year then open a daycare.

BUT...Be prepared to get to work at 5:30 in the morning to get ready for the child who arrives at 6 a.m. Then be prepared to go home at 7:00 p.m., an hour after the last child leaves. Be prepared to come in on Saturdays to do the repairs and manage the bookkeeping and payroll.

Be prepared to NEVER have a vacation....NEVER!

Be prepared to pay the property and business taxes, payroll taxes, business insurances, and income taxes. Be prepared to pay salaries and CPA fees.

Be prepared to go bankrupt or lose money.

Like ALL the WHINNY teachers I have ever met, you take a buisness's GROSS ( not considering expenses) and compare it to your VERY GENEROUS salary. How typical!

What was that big name school you went to?( eye roll at the ignorance of basic economics.)

[raybbr]

Be prepared to NEVER have a vacation....NEVER!

Only if you choose not to.

[alvindsv]

Actually I am fully aware of the economics of running a business. I ran a law practice for several years, and had to cover overhead, and payroll, etc.

By the way the name of the big name school was the University of Oklahoma College of Law. Perhaps you have heard of them? I hear they once won a few national championships in sports or something, and have one the best business school in the nation. But, that's just what I hear. JERK!

[Republican Party Reptile]

so go be a teacher since they have it so good, you got a serious case of envy going on there ....

[onja]

What's the matter? Why'd you get so upset? He made good points. My Mom cares very much about the poor. So she teaches in very bad areas for litle pay. She's okay with that. Still she's nearly infinitely better than her fellow teachers (usually home grown) but still gets paid the same. Some teachers get way over paid, some get underpaid.

Sounds like the teacher you're responding to is underpaid; 32k. Gets about 10 dollars an hour. Not "very generous". Not much for what he does. Having been a lawyer, working 15-18 hours a day, and whatnot. Same thing about the other two here. Sure, they shouldn't get paid what CEOs get. But some get paid almost nothing while others get paid very well. A merit system would be good to reward the people who, like the people here, should get paid more than other teachers.

(BTW-My mom taught in D.C., New Orleans, South Side Tucson, and the poor blacks in Northern Alabama. She's a great teacher but gets paid as much as those who know nothing, went to community college, and don't do anything. And she actually is thinking about founding a childhood center thing)