Public School Systems

[Richard Moody]

I read....
	>>     They have app. 250 pianos and they wanted to know if $12,000.00 a year 
> >was
> >> unreasonable.

> 
> 250 pianos times 2 tunings per year times $25 per tuning = $12,500.
> 




They probably heard a wise guy say he seen on the internet that a piano can be tuned
up in 30 minutes using some kind of sat machine.  soo in a 8 hour day which is 4
hours short of a teacher's working day, they figger 16 pianos.  Now at that rate,
some lucky tuner would net $400 a day, and make 12,000 in 16 days, which far more
than a teacher makes, not to mention an administrator who is making the decision to
pay that kind of money out to a job that does not even require a college degree.  
Besides the band instrument repair man's assistant cannot resist $40 an hour so he
can bid $20 per, and not have to plop down $800 for a SAT II unless his bid is
accepted. But he is afraid the substitute music teacher would love to make $30 a day
extra so he lowers his bid to $15 a piano.  Alas for both of them as a person fresh
out of "piano tuning school" would love to make $24 an hour so the school dist.
could be  looking at $12 per piano tuning bid.