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Monday, 12th May 2008

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I must thank my friend Leo McKinstry for pointing this out to me.
There is a truly wonderful letter in today’s Daily Express which simply has to be read, from the parent of a teacher. It’s a spectacular example of the always enjoyable phenomenon of the whingeing teacher.
From M Kilburn of Barnsley:
My daughter is a deputy head and recently decided to calculate all the hours she spends on school work. After she had done this, she worked out her hourly rate - it was less than two pounds an hour.
Shocked by the daughter's poverty-stricken plight, M Kilburn goes on to say:
Stop knocking teachers like her who work hard and under extreme conditions...Dedicated, caring people like teachers deserve our support, not to mention every penny they earn.
I do hope that M Kilburn’s daughter is not a maths teacher, although judging from the innumeracy of so many pupils today I’d not be surprised to find out she is head of the maths department.
  
M Kilburn says the daughter earns an hourly rate of two pounds an hour. Given that the salary for a deputy head is around £36,000pa (and that’s at the bottom of the scale), to be earning less than £2 an hour she must be working around 18,000 hours a year.    

M Kilburn adds that the daughter is away on holiday for two weeks a year. Thus, according to M Kilburn, this amazing teacher is working 360 hours every week, seven days a week or the equivalent of 51 hours a day.
 

 

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Daniel

May 12th, 2008 3:58pm

There are taxes I suppose

Nitnurse

May 12th, 2008 5:37pm

Lies, damn lies, purest humour.

Ann

May 12th, 2008 6:38pm

The figures were probably quoted incorrectly by the father. And after all, we know that teachers lead very cosseted lives compared with the real slaves in our society - journalists.

Nitnurse

May 12th, 2008 8:08pm

It's official - Ann's a teacher.

Dentes improborum confregisti

May 12th, 2008 9:25pm

Priceless!

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