d as to why I thought it was worth one of my vacation days. I didn't try to explain -- you have to live it.So here's where I see a need for improvement: TEACHERS.
We send our kids off to school and they spend 6+ hours a day with their teacher(s) for 9+ months a year. On a daily basis, our kids spend more time talking with and listening to their teacher(s) than they do their own parents.
Question: why isn't the profession of teacher one of the best paid, hardest to get hired into, and most scrutinized professions in our society? Teachers do more to shape our youngsters development than any other profession I can think of.
We should pay teachers an incredibly high salary. More people will want to become teachers. The competition will be tougher, the hiring process can become more stringent, and we can have better qualified, more motivated teachers. Every year, we can cut the bottom 10% and bring in new hires. The teachers will stay on top of their games.
In
stead, we shell out $30 bucks to sit in the upper deck of Dodger Stadium for the chance to eat a $4 Dodger Dog and drink a $7 lite beer. But hey, it's for a good cause: so sub .500 pitchers can make $8M a year and send their kids to private schools.
We send our kids off to school and they spend 6+ hours a day with their teacher(s) for 9+ months a year. On a daily basis, our kids spend more time talking with and listening to their teacher(s) than they do their own parents.
Question: why isn't the profession of teacher one of the best paid, hardest to get hired into, and most scrutinized professions in our society? Teachers do more to shape our youngsters development than any other profession I can think of.
We should pay teachers an incredibly high salary. More people will want to become teachers. The competition will be tougher, the hiring process can become more stringent, and we can have better qualified, more motivated teachers. Every year, we can cut the bottom 10% and bring in new hires. The teachers will stay on top of their games.
In
stead, we shell out $30 bucks to sit in the upper deck of Dodger Stadium for the chance to eat a $4 Dodger Dog and drink a $7 lite beer. But hey, it's for a good cause: so sub .500 pitchers can make $8M a year and send their kids to private schools. 
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I like it and you make a great point. Although, I think the moral of the story is that you should send Andy to a baseball school for 6 hours a day instead of a school with mediocre teachers. That way he can he can become a sub .500 pitcher and make $8 mil a year. I call dibs as his agent.
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