Are you sick of highly paid teachers?

Posted on September 2, 2014 by bitemaster

(Apprently by Meredith Menden)

Teachers’ hefty salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work 9 or 10 months a year! It’s time we put things in perspective and pay them for what they do – babysit!

We can get that for less than minimum wage.

That’s right. Let’s give them $3.00 an hour and only the hours they worked; not any of that silly planning time, or any time they spend before or after school. That would be $19.50 a day (7:45 to 3:00 PM with 45 min. off for lunch and plan– that equals 6 1/2 hours).

Each parent should pay $19.50 a day for these teachers to baby-sit their children. Now how many students do they teach in a day…maybe 30? So that’s $19.50 x 30 = $585.00 a day.

However, remember they only work 180 days a year!!! I am not going to pay them for any vacations.

LET’S SEE….

That’s $585 X 180= $105,300 per year. (Hold on! My calculator needs new batteries).

What about those special education teachers and the ones with Master’s degrees? Well, we could pay them minimum wage ($7.75), and just to be fair, round it off to $8.00 an hour. That would be $8 X 6 1/2 hours X 30 children X 180 days = $280,800 per year.

Wait a minute — there’s something wrong here! There sure is!

The average teacher’s salary (nation wide) is $50,000. $50,000/180 days = $277.77/per day/30 students=$9.25/6.5 hours = $1.42 per hour per student–a very inexpensive baby-sitter and they even EDUCATE your kids!) WHAT A DEAL!!!!

Make a teacher smile; repost this to show appreciation for all educators.

(Hat tip to the BiteMaster’s compadre, Deven Black.)

High school student suspended for saying ‘bless you’ to a classmate who sneezed

Posted on August 21, 2014 by bitemaster

When Dyer County High School senior Kendra Turner said “bless you” to her classmate, she says her teacher told her that was for church. Apparently, Turner received a brief (under one hour) in-school suspension.

The Bitemaster would be happy to learn that this is some sort of hoax, but many real media outlets are carrying the story and no one has gotten an official comment from the school or school district. Also, the high school’s website is offline and the county board of education’s domain is not resolving.

If the story is true — and it sure seems true — it is an infringement on freedom of religion.

Kendra Turner, Tennessee high school student, suspended for saying ‘bless you’ to a classmate who sneezed | WJLA.com.

Edited to add the teacher’s purported list of banned words:

NY State adjusted the scoring of statewide student tests — upwards

Posted on August 18, 2014 by bitemaster

State officials touted increases in scores on tough Common Core exams this year but failed to reveal that they had lowered the number of right answers needed to pass half the exams.

The state Education Department dropped the number of raw points needed to hit proficiency levels in six of the 12 English and math exams given to students in grades 3 to 8, officials acknowledged.

Here’s a great way to improve your test results: monkey with how the tests are scored!

NY ‘fixed’ Common Core tests — and scores surged | New York Post.

Charter schools pay millions to middlemen, while shortchanging education

Posted on June 20, 2014 by bitemaster

According to the Daily News, a Brooklyn Charter school squanders $1 millioon per year on rent by paying through a middleman, rather than through the city’s normal channels. Maybe someone will get indicted, someday. But we’ll never see those tax dollars again.

Charter schools paying millions in taxpayer money to middlemen while students suffer – NY Daily News.

Fox’s Keith Ablow: Schools should ban leggings because they distract my son

Posted on May 9, 2014 by bitemaster

Boy, that Ablow is some idiot, thinking that girls shouldn’t have the right to wear leggings in school.

Says one seventh-grader, “Not being able to wear leggings because it’s ‘too distracting for boys’ is giving us the impression we should be guilty for what guys do. We just want to be comfortable!”

Next, Ablow will probably oppose topfreedom for schoolgirls. After all, going topless is perfectly legal in many jurisdictions, so why not in school?

Fox’s Keith Ablow: Schools should ban leggings because they distract my son.

Pro-Palestinian activists serve eviction notices on Jewish undergrads at NYU

Posted on April 25, 2014 by bitemaster

Anti-Semitic activists have been pushing phony eviction notices under the the dorm room doors of Jewish undergrads at NYU. The notices included the following:

If you do not vacate the premise by midnight on 25 April, 2014, we reserve the right to destroy all remaining belongings.We cannot be held responsible for property or persons remaining inside the premises. Charges for demolition will be applied to your student accounts.

And here’s the tepid response of NYU mouthpiece John Beckman:

A flier titled ‘eviction notice’ anonymously slipped under doors at night is not an invitation to thoughtful, open discussion.

Thanks, John. I’m glad you cleared that up.

Pro-Palestine NYU students serve fake eviction notices to Jewish undergrads – NY Daily News.

Brown and other Ivy League colleges respond to sexual assault with cavalier “you’re on your own, baby” attitude

Posted on April 24, 2014 by bitemaster

“Brown University punished a rapist with what amounted to a one-semester suspension for choking and sexually assaulting a fellow student. . . .

“Brown is one of numerous universities, including several Ivy League schools, under fire for lax policies dealing with sexual violence. . . .

“Harvard College was hit with a federal complaint last month for, among other grievances, forcing sexual assault victims to live in the same residence halls as their attackers.”

Don’t send your kids to college without proper self-defense training.

Brown University Will Allow Rapist Who Choked His Victim Back On Campus.

Students Now Over $1 Trillion In Debt

Posted on March 31, 2014 by bitemaster

The Associated Press reports today that the indebtedness of over 37 million American graduates now tops $1 trillion.

It’s OUR money, and the Bitemaster predicts we ain’t NEVER getting paid back.

via Students Now Over $1 Trillion In Debt « Above the Law: A Legal Web Site – News, Commentary, and Opinions on Law Firms, Lawyers, Law Schools, Law Suits, Judges and Courts + Career Resources.

Plan Would Base The Boss’ Salary On The Janitor’s

Posted on February 20, 2014 by bitemaster

A bunch of students at St. Mary’s College of Maryland have proposed a radical idea: raise the lowest employee salary to $30,000 and then pay the college president ten times that much.

According to the students, St. Mary’s pay ratio was 1:13 for the 2012-2013 year, — far more equitable than corporate America. Among the 500 largest U.S. companies, the average pay ratio is a whopping 1:354 — up 1,000% since 1950, when it was 1:20.

While not sure of the solution, your Bitemaster is certain that the growing gap between haves and have-nots is bad for America.

Groundbreaking Plan Would Base The Boss’ Salary On The Janitor’s.

Parents have to provide toilet paper and hand soap at NYC public schools

Posted on January 11, 2014 by bitemaster

During ex-Mayor Bloomberg’s term in office, the schools budget doubled, but they still couldn’t afford to stock the bathrooms with toilet paper. Where was he putting the money?

Shelling Out for School Supplies.

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