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Sports for Pay
Now we are going to pay High School kids to play sports. Most States, including Florida, will allow High School athletes to get paid for “their name, image and likeness”. Professional players can make as much as 700 million playing baseball. Some get over 100 million for batting 250/260. 400 million if you are a reasonable good golfer and play for LIV. College level sports will allow you to get payed and the best players are gravitating to the Big Conferences with the best players. The Olympics, the epitome of amateur sports, are professionals now. Well, I could go on but you get the picture. Is a “sports bubble” being created? Are sports more important than education?
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A typical baseball game (America’s pastime) Me, wife, son, wife and two grandsons in decent seats at the ol’ballgame with hotel rooms, hot dogs, soda’s and adult beverages and dinner, etc. Wow! I guess it best to watch the game on our 65” television and invite the gang over to the house. Two tickets to the Cubs World Series in 2016 (resold tickets) 4K a piece. Middle class almost locked out of going in person to world Series, Super Bowl or Final four. Somebody has to pay for these outrageous salaries.
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Personally, I believe in capitalism and competition for business. So, are sports more important than education? Yes. Do I think a teacher is worth millions per year? No. Schools would be a lot better if they were allowed to compete.
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Compete how? They already compete athletically and as someone with kids, I remember going through the college selection process as to who is gonna receive my 100K -250K in tuition. That competition has existed for generations |
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Some people will says that teachers are underpaid, but they don't want to fire bad teachers or close bad schools. Sports doesn't work that way. |
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Your take on private schools clearly is a regional observation, as the majority of private schools have no religious affiliations.....what you’re talking about is parochial school. To say that ’parental involvement’ is higher with parents of private or parochial students vs those of public school parents.....on its face is an ignorant statement. |
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NCAA sports, which have a professional league to play in after school, turns those colleges and universities athletic programs into trade schools, nothing more.
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Now that is pretty meaningless unless you know the total non-sports budget of OSU. If it is 10 million then the 5 million sports profit is huge. But the real fact, the truth is that for 2024 the budget for OSU is over 9 billion dollars. The 2024 and 2025 budget is here. So tell me again about how sports income is the economic engine for D1 schools when the biggest receiver of sports income gets almost no net income from its sports program. OSU running a profit at all is not the usual. Here is the key quote from a PBS review of the issue "expenditures by college athletics departments are such that, with the exception of a small number of schools, athletic expenses surpass revenues at the overwhelming majority of Division I programs" So your fact is not holding up very well to the light of actual information. Opinions based on false beliefs are a big thing in the country right now. See my tag line. |
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Schools today want to dumb down students, not increase their intelligence. Look at some mandates that have been put in place these last few years: no more tests because too many can’t pass them, or anybody can get into any public university without any prescreening/testing. In the future you will have surgeons that can’t read or write because it’s mandatory you hire from all pools.
The plus I see from students getting paid in high school is the kid doesn’t have to cut his daily sports training short (if this is what they want to do later in life) to cut grass to make a couple dollars. |
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Teachers pay
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And, yes, I know a kid who was kicked out of a catholic school because his grades were poor. |
Home School our children.
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You have too many ‘helicopter parents’ out there that will never understand that |
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Not all kids go with that particular flow however. My step-granddaughter graduated last week from one of the largest public high schools in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area. Top-of-the-class student. National Honor Society. The recipient of three rather handsome scholarships for college. I doubt she'll need them: she has worked full-time summers the past two years for the University of Minnesota Extension, as well as for her high school during the school year (both before and after classes end for the day), and managed to save up to buy her own car (cash) as well as accumulate a significant savings account for college. Those scholarships are nice but I have little doubt that she would make it on her own without them. She certainly doesn't lack ambition. Her goal is to be a teacher, and to that end she has already enrolled in a smaller University in the University of Minnesota system in a small town in the Southwestern part of the state: one with more traditional values than one would expect, considering its affiliation. The values at this college and in the area where it is located line up with hers: not pie-in-the-sky wishfulness or marching in lockstep to some cotton-candy "cause", but instead a dedication to hard work; interpersonal relations that stress the virtues of honesty. dependability and morality; and respect for one's fellow human beings. I have no doubt she'll make it. She's a whiz at the Three R's, so that won't be a problem. But along with that she intends to bring to her students an ethic, and a view of what life SHOULD be; to prepare them for life as it SHOULD be lived. I equally have no doubt that she will succeed at that, as well. eighteen-year-old idealism? Maybe. But America would be a far better place if more people shared it. |
Competition cuts both ways. In the 50’s and 60’s, the teaching profession was one of the few that readily accepted women. As time went on, other areas offering higher salaries opened up to women. When I started in 1980 in Research and Development at a Fortune 500 company, there were 3 women who had Ph.D.s. ( out of 600+ scientists). When I retired, 4 of eight of my direct reports who were women, 3 with Ph.d.s. To expect the best and the brightest to take lower paying positions because they feel called to teach doesn’t work in a capitalist system. While I realize that some people do that, it doesn’t work in the larger picture.
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Your opinion and mine about the value of sports versus education is irrelevant. The values are set by the world's population and their global economic decisions and a global sense of fairness to individuals and their rights to their names, reputation, etc. How and whether educational institutions are taxed could change the economics. Do you have enough, time, energy and money to lobby for changes? |
The NIL ruined college sports and now it is about to do the same for high school sports.
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This won't stop until people stop worshipping athletes. It has really become crazy out there, yet people complain that the captains of industry that drive jobs and this nation are overpaid when a star athlete makes so much more. Crazy.
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Recently a man told me of taking his wife and two kids a Tiger preseason game in Lakeland and he dropped close to $1,000 on tickets and refreshments
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Sports for Pay
Paying High Schoolers is different, can’t be paid by schools or anyone involved with school. Parents have to set up deal, can’t be picture in school uniform. There are a few other rules.
I’m sure they will find ways around this. |
there are some very good teachers in the public school Jersey. However, there are some furry average to poor unmotivated teachers as well. They all get the same merit increase every year and no one ever gets fired therein lies the problem. Try that at Google Apple or IBM back in the day.
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Unfortunately many kids who attend public schools have no real parents to support them. Some live with grandma or a cousin or aunt. They don’t have a legal guardian or know what that is. At best many kids are in an economic disadvantage single parent home. This is especially true in the large cities but also in small rural areas too. And we expect the public school teachers, school administrators and coaches to deal with the situation.
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But all hyperbole aside, those statements above are not too far from the truth. I sat on the admissions committee of my medical school for 2 years, and the decisions that were made in those meetings were unbelievable. The MCAT scores for certain groups were abysmal, there were applications from students with a GPA of 1.9, and all along there was a member of the committee whose sole job was to "advocate" for these applicants, no matter how unqualified they were. And that was 45 years ago!. Since then they have "dumbed down" the MCAT and put less emphasis on GPAs, in favor of "life experiences" and "cultural upbringing". I can only imagine what goes on in those committee meetings today. Hopefully I'll be dead before I need the services of any of those candidates (if I'm not dead because of them) |
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