Discuss the importance of teachers and how their wages affect the quality of education children receive. Criticize the prioritization of high salaries for athletes and singers over teachers.
Teachers still have to live and pay their bills! Even if they love the kids, which most do, they can't teach for nothing. Additionally, they have a right to a secure future into their old age. Why are we willing to pay an athlete millions of dollars to play a stupid game or a singer millions to sing songs, but we constantly argue about the right of teachers to get a livable wage that enables them to buy a house, have healthcare, and care for their own children? Teachers have our children's future in their hands! If all that is available are crappy teachers because smart people no longer want to go into a career field that is constantly attacked and demeaned, then all we have left is the lowest common denominator. We are really pushing high quality people away from teaching as a career, which does not bode well for America.