Cynicism++;

[feren]

Here's a thought that'll undoubtedly keep me up tonight....

This guy has just been signed to a two year, $7.5 million dollar contract to be the pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles.

Think about that, people. $7.5 million dollars over two years to throw a ball over a plate. For a game. Meanwhile during the mid 1990s my hometown's school system was in a budget crisis so severe they couldn't afford paper for the photocopier so all classwork had to be done not off worksheets, but on our own paper while staring at a transparency that was projected onto the wall.

A quick bit of research for more current figures shows that the lowest salary in 2001-2002 for a public school teacher in Illinois is $24,616.

$7.5 million over two years to throw a baseball. $24,616 per year to educate our children.

Can anybody else say society has some skewed motherfucking priorities?

Sure, I knew ya could.

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Irriated...

[amichele2.livejournal.com]

Don't get me started on the lack of fundings in education. I could go on for hours on this topic, being a future teacher myself. Even as I work towards my masters, I'm still going to make nothing in compared to others in different fields. :(

Re: Irriated...

[feren.livejournal.com]

What's amazing is the huge range in salaries. If you teach in one place in Illinois, the salary is $24,000 as I mentioned. Yet if you teach for a few years at another school district it can be as high as $87,000! That's more than I make!

How the hell can there be this much disparity? It's completely insane!