I would like to clear a few things up. My wife is very involved with the school and for the last few months has been going over budget issues. 1) Private school parents usually pay extra for sports and such. The public school where we live (Buffalo) pays 600,000 per year just for the football team. 2) Buffalo school district recieves 5,500 dollars per student per year. 3) The average electrical bill for 100,000 square foot of building space can be close to 15,000 for a normal year. 4) Add in teaching supplies, bus service (yes the schools pay for that) lunch room workers, admin staff, etc and you can see where alot of the money goes. I am 100% republican and do not believe in higher taxes. So to put my money where my mouth is---our community is currently raising privet funds (to the tune of 100,000 dollars) to keep a couple of our teachers. I say this-- if you think the teachers need more money - fine that is ok. Do not force other people to abid by your expectations. Take care of you and yours. Step up to the plate and do what you can, and practice what you believe. Its to easy to whine about something and then not do anything about it. This is our country and the power is in your hands, it just might not be the easy way you want. Summary--if you think something is broken-- dont just stand around bi*&$ing about it- do what you can to fix it. Remember-just cause you believe it doesn't make it true And just because you don't believe it doesn't makt it false Uriah -----Original Message----- From: Kent Schumacher [mailto:kent at structural-wood.com] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 12:36 PM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Kids and linux (was mklinux) WARNING WAY OT, SorryIcouldn'thelp it Phil Mendelsohn wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Troy.A Johnson wrote: > > > >>> kethry at Winternet.com 06/21/01 11:15AM >>> > > >35,000/year to teach our children is definitely way under paid! > > > > And what would be a decent wage for this vocation? > > You don't have kids, do you? How much would a year would we have to pay > *you* to do it full-time? :) > We can play some numbers games: Let's say a teacher has 24 students, and lets say the average funding per child is $11,000. per student per year ($11,000 is what it was two years ago in Mpls. I don't know what it is today but I think I'm safe in betting it isn't less). So, each teacher generates about 24*$11,000 or $264,000 (from the bash command line you can get that by typing expr 24 '*' 11000, to give some linux relevancy here). Let's give the teacher $60,000 for 180 days work (If I had that wage rate I would be making $80,000 for my 240 days work). Figure about 20% overhead for sick leave, insurance, etc..., so the teacher costs about $72,000. That leaves $192,000.00 per classroom for overhead (and it is overhead - we are paying to have our kids taught). It seems pretty apparent we could afford to pay our teachers high salaries at the current funding levels. We could pay reasonable salaries at a significanly lower funding level. I think Liz said she was paying $800 / month for her child to go to a private school. This works out to about $7200/year. This is a lot less than our public schools spend per student. Oh well. Maybe the taxpayers should hire the teacher unions public relations person... _______________________________________________ tclug-list mailing list tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.messagelabs.com/stats.asp _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.messagelabs.com/stats.asp