Why Reward Athletes More Than Teachers?

As a society, we make all sorts of excuses about why we can’t muster enough funds to pay a teacher a decent wage. Yet we pay millions of dollars a year to athletes to entertain us for an afternoon, evening or season.

Many of those athletes are less-than-stellar citizens. They made it through school without learning how to read; they use vulgar language freely and commit vulgar acts; they get into legal battles about wife-beating, rape, drugs and alcohol. The sad part is that youngsters look to them as role models.

Let’s get our priorities straight and pay teachers and athletes based on their worth to society.

Fran Berman

Laguna Hills