do you find it fair that actors/actress or even sports players make more money then teachers?

Answer 1

Than teachers?

No, it's not fair, but everytime you pay to see a movie and don't pay everytime you go to class you make it possible.

Answer 2

Yes, that's a competitive field and teachers don't compete toe to toe or have 20 million fans.

How many people will pay $50 to get your teachers authograph.

What books has your teacher written.

Did you teacher do a show on PBS like Cosmos or the Ascent of Man

Once a teacher become hot, it suddenly becomes competitive for students to get into the class.

You'll need a 4.1 GPA to qualify

Then will it be fair that only smart students get to take classes from the great teacher?

How about HS graduates.

They work at K-Mart for $7.50 an hour and stock shelves all day long 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, sometimes on Sundays, Thanksgiving and only get 1 week vacation a year.

Is it fair teachers don't have to work after 4 pm or on weekends or holidays and they get 2 months off a year.

Your mom and dad don't get a 2 month vacation!

90% of the actors in the union make only $5,000 a year

Only 1% make over $100,000 a year.

I'm all for starting it.

First, the teacher has to buy their union card $2,500 in one payment certfied check or they can only teach one day until they get their union card.

Day pay is $500

You may be laid off after that and it's up to you to get your next job.

To get your job you bring your picturese, resume and audition before a room full of people who decide if they like the way you teach or not.

They may call you back again

They may call you back two times, with no pay.

Then if they decide to use yo they pay you for a few days work or a few weeks work then you get laid off again.

It's $2,500 a week.

Maybe you get 3 weeks work that's $7,500 then you get laid off and may not work again for 18 months.

It's up to you to find your own job.

Now teachers are working like actors.

Happy.

Think they'll be happy.

Oh, and set call is 5 am and you stay til the work is done and if that is 9 pm so be it.

OK

Let's be a football player

You get drafted out of college with a starting pay of $100,000 a year

You report to training camp in the spring and you train 8 hours a day 5 days a week.

Up at 6 am, out doing callistenics and plays til 11 am.

Then lunch

Then back out in the training field til 5 pm

Then dinner

Lights out at 9PM

You get fined money for being late, missing practise, being drunk

Fines are $2,000-$5,000

Then you go into a full game where a 280 pound 6'5" man's job is to knock you on your back.

You get knocked down on the grass (sacked) a good 10 times per game.

See if your teachers are ready to do that life style.

Oh, by the way, you live where you train and live where you work. You have to pay your own way and your families way.

You're on the road 15 weeks a year.

Answer 3

Yes. Teachers are public employees, and actors and athletes are paid by private industry. The private employers bank a lot more from actors and athletes than anyone does from a teacher, so the money is there to pay.

As you'll find one day when you own a house, a lot of school funding comes from property taxes. Guess what will happen to your property taxes when you pay an algebra teacher the same as Michael Jordan.

Any teacher who brings up this comparison needs to find a new line of work. Teacher salaries have always been low, and any teacher who wasn't smart enough to know this prior to entering the profession isn't smart enough to teach my kid.

Answer 4

Of course it's fair. What's unfair about it?

What would be unfair would be an economic system that decreed that everyone be paid the same, regardless of effort, talent, results, or demand or need for their services. Wait, there was one like that. It was called communism. Hasn't made a society prosper even once, anywhere it's been tried.

If you want to make millions of dollars, don't go to work in the public sector. Those salaries are paid 100% by taxpayers. No one is forced to pay the actor or ballplayer a dime.

Answer 5

Yes, I'm really sick of teachers claiming to be underpaid. Maybe they were -- decades ago. But they are making good money now, have the summers, breaks and many holidays off, and it's not physically difficult work.

People choose to be teachers knowing full well what the demand and pay scale are, so they shouldn't complain.

Answer 6

well, it's not that i'm looking down on teachers but basically anyone can be one:)..to be good at acting or sports, well, it takes a lot of talent and hard work or not, looking at the way the film industry is moving:(.

And well, when you're an actor/actress you work a whole lot than teachers do..

There are numerous reasons but i'm too lazy to write:)

Answer 7

Yes. The sports players bring IN more money. Fans are willing to pay that much money to see these events. The players are giving them a service that people see as being that valuable.

Sure, teaching is a more noble profession, but like any business, you make money depending on how much you bring in.

Answer 8

It's just the job description. Maybe it's fair, maybe it's not.

Answer 9

Those that chose teaching as a career, did it with their own "free will."