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Originally Posted by akoscielski3
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In my opinion teachers should (edit: shouldn't) get paid to Volunteer. The teachers and mentors on my team, do so much the reward of knowing that they helped out students was a big enough reward for them. Our lead teacher spends Hours away from his family to help out, and goes for days when a competitions. I dont see why teachers and mentors should get paid for something they want to do, its almost like a hobby, You love doing it, its rewarding knowing you accomplished something, but you don't get paid for it.
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I love running our robotics team but there are many things I have to do that are not directly related to showing kids how to build robots. Not trying to rain on your parade but the paperwork alone is enough for me to justify a stipend. The hours away from my family, the hours I spend doing robotics work rather than playing with my daughters makes me feel somewhat OK with the money. When I started 12 years ago I had no desire to get paid for the time. Like Patrick said, our school union would not let me volunteer to run the club unpaid. It makes other teachers look bad for taking money and sets a bad precedence with the district.
I would rather not say exactly how much I make but we have 3 positions with the school. 1 club advisor and 2 club assistants. The total money for the club is slightly over $4000 and is divided up so that the advisor gets about twice as much as the assistants. (you can do the math to figure out about how much I make) I tried to do an actual hourly wage and it somehow came out to around $2.00/hour. I figured it was a lot worse than that.
So at $.17/hour, does that mean that Patrick spends over 10,000 hours every year on robotics? Unless my math is wrong that is more than 1 year per year, astounding! Where do you find the time? ( no really how did you add an extra month to the calendar and spend it all on robotics and never sleep?)