Teachers *DO* Generate Revenue

Rush was talking today about who deserves to be paid more, baseball players or teachers.

RUSH: You know, over the course of this program people have called here and complained to me about how much athletes make versus how little teachers make, and they want to talk about the relative importance of the two vocations.

I say, "Well, how many people pay to watch a teacher work?" Nobody pays. In fact, you have to be forced into the room where the teacher is. They have to make you go there -- and then once you're in there, you are a prisoner. You choose to go to an athletic arena. You pay to get in there or what have you. The difference is revenue generation versus revenue expenditure in a capitalistic system. If you want to start assigning moral value, that's one thing; but then you're going to have to have some tribunal set up to determine who gets what. Equal pay for equal work? Who's gonna decide what job is as important as another? Well, there are people who want a government agency to do that based on their view of morality -- you know, what's important and what isn't.

And in one sense Rush is right. Nobody pays (in high school) to watch a teacher teach. People would rather watch a football game, where they don't have to think, than watch a spelling bee or a technology bee. Brains are denigrated, athletics are praised.

Athletes who show off impress people, intelligent people who show off get beat downs for showing off.

But that's a tangent. The thing is - teachers are responsible for kids - 30 kids an hour, 5 hours a day depending on how may periods they teach, being able to leave school and get a job. Without teachers, kids won't have a chance.

(And of course if kids go to school but don't pay attention to teachers, they won't have a chance, either. That's the tragedy.)

Teachers aren't more important than athletes.... but they should be.


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