Commentary on TeachingCenter
A couple of days ago I was on some random website and this headline jumped out at me: Key & Peele Sketch Imagines A World Where Teachers Are Paid Like Athletes And It's Awesome Naturally, as a teacher, I just had to click on the page. What I watched was very entertaining, but also very thought-provoking. Watch it below: Fabulous, right? From the huge amount of money guaranteed to a talented teacher to the drafting of a "mathlete" who was living on his father's modest paycheck from playing professional football to the "play of the year" getting the introvert involved in the discussion, all of these are things for which teachers would love to be praised. So why does it take a popular sketch show mimicking a sports show to get people talking? Why aren't teachers paid like athletes? The second question is easy to answer: 1. Public schools are owned by the government, and you know there's not a lot of money there. Church schools (like mi