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- From: janner@cactus.org (Jeffrey W. Janner)
- Subject: Re: Schools
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.050848.19881@cactus.org>
- Organization: Capital Area Central Texas UNIX Society, Austin, Tx
- References: <1993Jan23.051611.18678@cactus.org> <1993Jan23.212109.13131@rpp386> <1993Jan24.193858.17247@rpp386>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 05:08:48 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.193858.17247@rpp386>, jfh@rpp386 (John F. Haugh II) writes:
- > In article <C1C2nD.wGJ@austin.ibm.com> me@vikings.austin.ibm.com (Michael E) writes:
- > >John's homework assignment: Create a budget for a private school based on
- > >whatever aforementioned conditions.
- >
- > John's School Budget -
- >
- > Expenses
- > 3 rooms @ $500 per month, $1,500 per month 18,000
- > 12 months per year
- > textbooks, 5 year lifetime, 10 per student, 5,400
- > average cost of $30
- > desks, chairs, etc., $200 per student, 10 1,800
- > year lifetime
- John, can you supply your math here! We came up with 9 students &
- and 3 students, Respectively. (this is total?)
- > supplies, $50 per student, per class, per 27,000
- > year (6 classes)
- Howw are you going to get 6 classes into 3 rooms?
- Where will you find the teachers who can adequately teach
- six seperate subjects?
- > salaries, 3 teachers @ $35K/yr 105,000
- > employer paid taxes 8,032
- > benefits
- > health insurance @ $300/mon 10,800
- > disability @ $50/mon 1,800
- > retirement @ $100/mon 3,600
- You really expect a small employer to supply *any* of the above
- benefits? (See previous post!) Don't forget plan administration costs!
- > tax accountant 1,000
- Well you added account, now add the taxes. (BTW: can you tell me where
- to find one for this price? For year round consulting?
- > total 182,432
- >
- > Revenues
- > 90 students @ $2,000 per student 180,000
- >
- >
- > This would be a 3 room school, with three teachers each having 30 students
- > paying $2,000 per year tuition. These numbers are all pretty supportable
- > using current office space costs, benefits expenses, and are competitive
- > with current teacher salaries. We'd have to appoint a blue-ribbon board
- > to find that $2,432 per year, but with a million dollar grant from the
- > federal government, I think we could find it. Or we might just take an
- Grant from the FEDS? I thought this was a *private* school?
- > extra 4 or 5 students or raise tuition an extra 20 or 30 dollars. Or
- > maybe we even cut the supplies down to something less extravagent.
- >
- > But at any rate, I think I've proven that it is rather doable.
- > --
-
- You did an okay job here, but I would argue with some of your base assumptions,
- but it's getting late. Re-check your math (Provide it please), add some
- more real-world expenses, etc., and you might have a workable budget here.
- Then you could publish it or use it for your disertation and get out of
- here and go back up North. ;-) :-)
-
- Jeff Janner | janner@cactus.org
-