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Kind of a dumb argument imo. Athletes generate tons of revenue for the owners, they deserve as much of that as they can get. And tbh it isnt that difficult to become a teacher (not a slight at teachers), not as many people can hit a fast ball or throw a football 60 yards.
 
When a teacher sells jerseys with their name on it, and teaches in front of millions of fans every day they will get paid like it. Until then the arguement holds no water.
 
Dumbest arguement ever. Teachers want to get paid like professionals, yet they don't act professional at all in their classrooms.
 
It's all about supply and demand....many people can teach, but not many can throw a 95 mph fastball. Life is not fair, but then again these athletes make chump change compared to Bill Gates. :lol:
 
i am a former teacher... and i agree completely with DS 84 and Alex here.

people who are going into teaching know they aren't going to make tons of money, so i never felt sorry for the ones who complained about it after the fact.

then again, who else is guaranteed two paid weeks off every Christmas, 5 days at Thanksgiving, a week long spring break, and almost three months off in the summer?

when you extrapolate their salaries to include the time off, they do okay, when compared to professions like Police officers and Firefghters. Police work is constantly rotating shift work, going from day shift, to swing shift, to graveyard shift every few weeks, with a couple days off for the body to adjust to the time changes. weekends disappear. same with Firemen; 24 hour shifts.

and as Bear Bryant once said: i've never seen 75,000 paying fans show up to watch a Chemistry test.
 
As soon as a teacher is selling out 75,000 seat stadiums, getting 50,000,000 veiwers to watch on TV, getting multi million dollar advertising deals, being responsable for employing 1,000's of people and generating BILLIONS in general revenue they'll make more then a pro athlete.
 
One of two things will have to happen
1.Sports is taken over and run by the government, in which case there is no free agency and everyone on the team gets paid the same with yearly COL increases

OR

2.Teachers break from the government and schools become privately run ventures, and teachers become free agents and students paying more to attend school will attract the best teachers, because they pay more.

Pity the small market school systems in that case

(BTW, this logical answer is to a totally illogical and irrelevant question)
 
There are obviously two sides to this, business vs. morals. Obviously athletes are paid based on a business stand point. However, IMO teachers should be paid much more based on the importance of their jobs. Millions? Of course not, then again I don't think people should get paid millions to play a game either. Some of you have said it doesn't take much to be a teacher, which is somewhat true, but it takes alot of hard work to be a good teacher.


Vertical Limit said:
Dumbest arguement ever. Teachers want to get paid like professionals, yet they don't act professional at all in their classrooms.
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Thats a pretty harsh blanket statement to make. I know there are plenty of exceptions but that is definitely not the norm.
 
I have always thought teachers are a little underpaid in what they do. However, to compare them to professional athletes... that is a bit of a stretch.

Other countries do pay teachers more than here, but again... saying they deserve millions is a big reach.
 
CharlestonPhan said:
i am a former teacher... and i agree completely with DS 84 and Alex here.

people who are going into teaching know they aren't going to make tons of money, so i never felt sorry for the ones who complained about it after the fact.

then again, who else is guaranteed two paid weeks off every Christmas, 5 days at Thanksgiving, a week long spring break, and almost three months off in the summer?

when you extrapolate their salaries to include the time off, they do okay, when compared to professions like Police officers and Firefghters. Police work is constantly rotating shift work, going from day shift, to swing shift, to graveyard shift every few weeks, with a couple days off for the body to adjust to the time changes. weekends disappear. same with Firemen; 24 hour shifts.

and as Bear Bryant once said: i've never seen 75,000 paying fans show up to watch a Chemistry test.
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Exactly, it's not like people don't respect what teachers do or anything. It's just that they don't generate the income for others that athletes do. Maybe that isn't fair, but it's just the way the world is.
 
CharlestonPhan said:
i am a former teacher... and i agree completely with DS 84 and Alex here.

people who are going into teaching know they aren't going to make tons of money, so i never felt sorry for the ones who complained about it after the fact.

then again, who else is guaranteed two paid weeks off every Christmas, 5 days at Thanksgiving, a week long spring break, and almost three months off in the summer?

when you extrapolate their salaries to include the time off, they do okay, when compared to professions like Police officers and Firefghters. Police work is constantly rotating shift work, going from day shift, to swing shift, to graveyard shift every few weeks, with a couple days off for the body to adjust to the time changes. weekends disappear. same with Firemen; 24 hour shifts.

and as Bear Bryant once said: i've never seen 75,000 paying fans show up to watch a Chemistry test.
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Exactly. And for the yoyos like me who complain about celebs/athletes making so much money, I should (and do) realize that if I want to be rich like them, then I should've tried to be an actor/celeb.

Otherwise I won't ever make as much money as they do.
 
Motion said:
Thats a pretty harsh blanket statement to make. I know there are plenty of exceptions but that is definitely not the norm.
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Oh I'm sure the yelling, slouching, working on their fingernails and make up, the mood swings with the unexpected rage that comes with it on the students, can all fall under Professional. Not to mention the average of teachers a month who sleeps with their own students.

I'm not saying all teachers are like this, but there's a pretty good percentage that is.
 
This is alot more interesting argument when you are talking to Non-Sports fans.
 
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