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.

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

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.

Being kicked out for poor grades is something I never heard happening , after putting two through private school , Chicago Public had a selective enrollment schools the only criteria was academic, here again behaviour issues were almost nonexistent, for some reason they seem to want to do a way with those schools

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.

Pay is based on how hard it is to find someone capable of doing a job. Before you complain about the pay of pro athletes, ask yourself if you could do theor job. When you say no you will have your answer as to why they get paid so much. It is the same reason why a shelf stocker makes so little.

I’ve already addressed some of this nonsense. But even a helicopter parent deserves the right to his/her opinions

You’re absolutely right about opinions.

First off all, if you knew anything about surgeons, you'd know very few of them can read and write :1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

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)

But not their choice of schools

Evolution of Capitalism
 

Everyone, no matter what age is entitled to make money off their name or likeness. Previously college sports was similar to slavery. Hard work no pay.........then when less than 1% go on to a professional career, the other 99% get a mediocre education, and suffer injuries for the rest of their lives. Americas hunger for entertainment feeds the sports machine, and will continue.

So, if you are an entertainer you should get paid. No different than making money off Facebook or Tik Tok. The bigger problem here is that with all that revenue the cost of college isn't going down.
Now, thats, the crime.

Colleges are educational institutions, not entertainment centers. All revenue from non education activities(sports) should be taxed. Ethics have no place in capitalism. So slavery has to be fought everywhere as the system favors it. Why are our goods made in china, cheap slave labor. That
clock is ticking as well.............you cant keep taking advantage of people to feed the capitalistic system...........there comes a time to pay the piper..:thumbup:



th mother 99%

You have a choice....at least where I’m from of public, private, charter or home schooled. I believe those are choices.
If you’re in a community that offers public school choice (educate your kids in a community that isn’t their own) that is a choice. Most communities don’t exercise that option but it does exist in some

Vouchers give choice to those who have the greater need of choice by helping fund the education of those who have less resources, rather than just a difference without a distinction

Ok....that’s more descriptive than your first drop of just ‘there are no school choices’. I’m not here or there on any of it on this thread....just that it’s a family decision . The ignorant commentary that parents of public school students (many that sit in affluent communities as well) are somehow ‘less attentive’ to their kids than those in private schools. If these kids parents are any indication of what a valued education is supposed to look like.....with that type of commentary....obviously not much!