{"id":137,"date":"2006-03-22T18:41:07","date_gmt":"2006-03-22T23:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2006-03-22T18:41:07","modified_gmt":"2006-03-22T23:41:07","slug":"ontario-teachers-do-the-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Teachers, Do The Math"},"content":{"rendered":"

In relation to the OPSEU teacher’s strike<\/a>, I heard a college professeur call Lowell Green today.\u00a0 He mentioned some numbers that relate to his story.\u00a0 Let me restate these (along with my assumptions)<\/p>\n

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  1. He has 18 hours of teaching time a week<\/li>\n
  2. He has at least 1 hour of prep work for every 1 hour of teaching time (let’s assume 1.25)<\/li>\n
  3. He has 32 weeks of teaching a year (i.e. 20 weeks of no classes)<\/li>\n
  4. He makes $70,000 a year<\/li>\n
  5. He does some prep work over the summer. (let’s assume 1 day a week, because after all it is summer)<\/li>\n
  6. Let’s assume a veteran equivalent to 10 years in other industries and give our teacher 4 weeks of full paid vacation annually.\u00a0 This would be complete down time with no prep work, no teaching, no marking, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Now for Math 101 – Adding and multiplying<\/strong>
    \n40.5 (x32 weeks)=1296 (the hours of teaching and prep for teaching)<\/p>\n

    8 (x16 weeks)=128 (the hours of work in off teaching weeks)<\/p>\n

    Total hours?\u00a0 (1296+128)=1424<\/p>\n

    Now for Math 102 – Dividing and Crying<\/strong>
    \n$70,000 \/ 1424 = $49.16 per hour worked\u00a0 (note     minimum wage in Ontario<\/a> is currently $7.75\/hr and moving to $8.00\/hr on January 1st, 2007)
    \n1424 \/ 48 weeks = 29.67 hours per week (not on vacation)<\/p>\n

    Now for Strike Assessment 101 – There is never any subtracting<\/strong><\/p>\n

    And that, my friends, is Officially Screwed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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