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If Teachers Were Football Players (Original Post)
Quixote1818
Oct 2014
OP
I agree. It's the free market and the free market often has backwards prorities
Quixote1818
Oct 2014
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RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)1. Nurses, librarians, and public school teachers are my heroes!
Take that, Arne Duncan!
shenmue
(38,506 posts)2. Me too
tecelote
(5,122 posts)3. If Teachers Were Paid Like Football Players.
The competition would be outrageous. Only the best would survive the cut.
Instead... "if you can't do, teach."
Imagine our world if teachers and the police were paid like football players.
'Says something about our priorities.
Quixote1818
(28,968 posts)4. I agree. It's the free market and the free market often has backwards prorities
Countries like Finland chose to pay Teachers more and of course because they are valued more by the Gov. the public values teachers at the same level of Doctors and Lawyers.