The average yearly salary of a teacher is about $45,000.
The lowest yearly pay of a professional Baseball player is about $180,000.

America obviously values education.

But, should the pay of a teacher be raised all that much?

Think about this: If a teacher’s anual salary is raised to an amount that would be considered wealthy, would the quality of our teachers go down? Would there be more people going into the profession simply for the money? People who don’t, at all, care about actually enlightening their students, and just go into the job for the pay?

Maybe a teacher’s pay being low ensures that the people who seek that profession really want the profession, and really want to teach, rather than anything involving economic gain. Someone must have to want to be a teacher to be in a classroom for eight hours a day, then have to go home and spend more time correcting papers and the like, right?

Is… that reason really good enough, though?

That same logic can then be used to justify any low-paying job. Every job in the US could lower its pay to minimum wage, and claim, “Well, we do it because we want to make sure the people we’re hiring really want the job.” – And, we all know that, that won’t ever work. There are a lot of highly paid professions that people go into because they want to. We, as a country, have hundreds of experts in many of them. [Read more →]

  Let me get this off my chest.  I love Nickelodeon!  I watch their shows with my daughter and son.  I expect to see shows that entertain but do not tackle issues that I don’t want them to watch.  Right now I know its safe for them to watch that channel anytime they want.  I do not have to monitor that channel.  I do not want to start monitoring that channel. With that said have you ever watched Zoey 101? 

  Jaime plays the perfect teen.  She always saves the day.  Her friends always go to her for advice and she is the perfect role model.  Let the show end there!  Zoey is not pregnant so let her graduate and end the show on a high note.  I do not want my 9 year old son watching teen pregnancies.  OK I think we all agree kill that show!

  Nickelodeon has said they want to do a show following her pregnancy?  What are they nuts!  Are they going to show a teen pregnancy from the eyes of a millionaire family buying nice little baby clothes shopping for the latest trendiest toys and furniture all packed up in a limo?  Or a real reality of a single teen mom going through pure hell, maybe on welfare?  [Read more →]