Overworked and underpaid
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:
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.
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.