i mean...look. i know a teacher who's students are so poor they can't even pay S$10 ( about 1.8 US $ ) for their school fees and look at people like donald trump or britney spears or tom cruise spurlging on desginer clothes and holidays that cost thousands of dollars...PLEASE.
213624
Ok heres my view. Celebrities I don't think are over paid. Movie stars are definately not. The work they put into there role is amazing. As for footballers I believe they are stupidly over paid. When you think that people play football for fun the majority of football stars today are only in it for the money and don't even play that great. It get ridiculous, especially if they are supposed to big a fan of the team they are playing for yet want to demand as much money out of there team as possible. Come on the only good players I know are Van Nistleroy, Henry, and Terry.
545257
It's our school system's fault...we are required one year of American History and one year of World History...but all we learn about in World is maps and Wars. Most of us have not traveled because it's too expensive...everything here is too expensive! I haven't moved more than 50 miles from my birthplace, nor have most of the people I know. Family traditions I suppose.
65625
i totally agree with you,i think teachers and the military dont get the pay they deserve, theres a reason those athletes can play their sports for a living in our free country and im pretty sure that goes back to thanking the military for risking their lives, and the teachers who taught that athlete how to write their signature.
235959
since teachers have to put up with alot of crap i would say anywhere from $50,000 to $70,000.
549152
From what I am seeing on Yahoo answers a lot of money is wasted on education.
647236
Entertainers in general are overpaid in this country. Think about it: What's more important? Educating the young minds of America, or kicking a field goal? Who gets paid millions of dollars more?
252557
yup... Bush has made cuts to education and that's not mentioning his No Child Left Behind program that has heavily taxed an already overburdened system... \nAnd college tuition has went up an average of 40 percent since Bush's presidency... and loans and grants are down...\nEducation is far down his list, and all of his suporters have their children in private school and just want the school choice program so they can milk the system even more...\n\nNot everyone can afford private school... and has anyone ever been in an inner-city school... or even a school that is way out in the middle of nowhere in the south... poverty beyond belief and no supplies...
583772
some are professionals who are very highly educated and enjoy travel and teaching\n\nand some are backpackers who want to live on the cheap.\n\nI suggest that any school thinking of hiring ANY teacher (both local and foreign) check the credentials and references VERY carefully
160791
It's called child sweat shops... we are so greedy to get money, we expliot any other nation we can paying as low as possible to do it, so we can have even more money. \nThey work up to 12 hours a day, for pennies, while the U.S. company sells their products for a huge profit.\nBut, according to Republican's they should just be happy to have jobs... hahaha... nice excuse to expliot a people.
166316
We are spending way too much money on other countries and not enough helping our own people. There are many homeless and illiterate people in our own country who I would rather give my tax dollars to.
640970
They can't do it. It costs $18,000 to educate one child for one year in California.  Do the math.  We subsidize the poor, and only let in the amount of poor we are willing to subsidize.  Every penny spent on someone above the amount let in legally was stolen from those who subsidize those services.  It is not just a matter of 'what if they paid taxes appropriate to their income group' since the point is that services for that income group are mostly paid for by others, which is why we limit the number that can come in.  \n\nThat is why it is such a problem.
406423
I understand your frustration.  I have taught high school for 8 years and it is very discouraging at times to see the situations that exist in the classroom.  First of all, there is a mandate that Special Education students be mainstreamed into the general classroom population.  I have had a class of 34 students with 9 Spec. Ed. students (this is becoming more and more typical).  There are supposed to be teacher's aides to help in classes like that, but school budgets are spent so unwisely, at times, that there is no money for a teacher's aide for every teacher with a significant amount of Spec. Ed. students (who either have a learning disability, a behavioral disability, or an emotional disability).  This leaves the teacher and the students at a disadvantage.  Teachers now use more time on class management than on class instruction.  And, it's not just because of Spec. Ed. students.  For some reason many students like to "dumb down" on their own as to not be ridiculed by their peers for being too smart, a nerd, or a "lame".  School administration look at teachers with disdain and often let go of teachers with too high of a failure rate, so many teachers, when presented with a class or classes that do not produce on the expected level then create a curriculum that they feel the students have a chance to pass, even if it does not prepare a student to be on level.  Our educational system is in deep need of reforms that work, not just reforms that look good on paper but have no substance or effectiveness in the classroom or to the students.  I try to prepare students for high school and beyond, whether they are college bound, interested in vocational training, or ready to work once they graduate.  Teaching is a many tiered profession (teacher, counselor, mentor) if children are to be educated properly.  I worry about the same things you do, but I also know that the big decisions about education often do not rest upon  teachers' shoulders, but on an administration that is often too long out of the classroom to remember or know the things that work and the things that do not.  I only hope that it gets better before it continues getting worse.
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"Throwing money" ... what an odd choice of words. When you buy groceries, do you call that "throwing money" at your nutritional needs?\n\nFirst, the realization that we can longer get good teachers cheap. Women now have many options other than secretary, nurse, teacher, housewife. Why would "the best and brightest" persue a 4 year degree in a profession that pays so poorly? Teachers should make as least as much as nurses, firefighters. Further, they are professionals deserving of respect, not nannies to shoulder the blame when the children misbehave.\n\nSecond, free them to teach. When teachers are expected to be psychologists, nutritionists, sex educators, social workers, vocational counselors, public health workers, and substitute parents ... when are they supposed to teach reading and math? How is it that school systems have been burdened with so many duties and functions which should be shouldered by parents, child welfare agencies, public health departments, law enforcement, et al.\n\nThird, give them the right of exclusion. It is simply WRONG to allow one or two disruptive students to prevent the other 28 from learning. Why do taxpayers allow their money to be squandered on such nonsense?\n\nForth, realize the education of children is a service, not a business. Get the bean counters out.
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Because the current administration has other ideas.  Bush is taking care of the people who he call his base...the have-mores!  You are right, we are becoming poorer and we are becoming less educated.   This is by plan.  Soon the only people who will be able to afford a college education will be the wealthy.  At the rate of 11% a year for the last 5 years college tuition has risen.  What middle income family will be able to educate their children beyond high school if that trend continues?  The fact that we are in this position is to the delight of Russia, China and North Korea.  China owns our debt and when they decide to cash in, we are all up a creek.
71541
The public education system really does a number on what kids think without teaching basic English, basic economics, and basic citizenship.  So the worst exploiters are our public school teachers.
121440
Yeah but more an likely that guy is screwed because that is the crap you get..  And the way the system works... Heck look at the teacher in flordia?
144510
not enough pay and parents are raising  out of controll kids.  and its never the kids falt they do everything perfectly and are never wrong, it must be the teachers fault