Cynicism++;
Oct. 1st, 2003 09:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ferenHere'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.
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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Date: 2003-10-01 08:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-01 08:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-01 08:41 pm (UTC)That education seems to be getting its budget slashed in the interest of representatives' pet programs isn't helping, either.
Irriated...
Date: 2003-10-01 09:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-01 10:01 pm (UTC)-lee
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Date: 2003-10-02 01:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-02 07:12 pm (UTC)Is that sort of like Highlander, where "There can be only one?"
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Date: 2003-10-02 07:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-02 07:17 pm (UTC)Yeah, that really pisses me off. I've seen Minneapolis do it with the Target Center, I've watched a suburb do it with that godawful "Mall of America." I've watched Chicago do it with the new Soldier Field... it maddens me to no end that they get tax breaks and then get the local government to actually give them taxpayer's money!
It's like when Chicago was courting Boeing... they offered them such immense tax incentives to move to Chicago that we'll essentially never see a dime from that company for the next decade!
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Date: 2003-10-02 07:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-02 07:18 pm (UTC)Re: Irriated...
Date: 2003-10-02 07:25 pm (UTC)How the hell can there be this much disparity? It's completely insane!
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Date: 2003-10-02 07:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-03 07:43 pm (UTC)Of course the rest of the school. There were only about 12 of those classroom trailers. Money has the right priority you know.