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Require athletes to pay a minimum of 25% of salary to the school system
I always find it a bit odd that athletes make such a grand salary and tend to spend on ridiculous items. I feel athletes should pay a mandatory amount to the educational system to help with teacher salaries. I feel this could entice more educated individuals to enter the education profession.
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Robert Winner 50+
These are cash cows for the schools and never had the academic ability to begin with. They paid the schools directly with their talents while there. They will play ball for a few years and then retire on a pension from the league.
A better idea would be to work to educate players and see them graduate. How many kids cannot not attend because their slot was taken by some quota system such as the athletic scholarship.
Your idea about "educated individuals to enter the education profession" is, in my opinion not valid. The average teacher salary in the US, according to the web, is $44,000 per year and the teacher signs a contrat for differing hours but is slightly more than 800 hours on the average ... so that is approximately $55 per hour. The US average worker, per the Social Security Admin, is $42,979.61 for 2080 hours per year or $20.66 per hour. If money was the deciding factor then everone would want to be a teacher to get thirty dollars a hour more and work a lot less.
I think that they should put the word graduated beside the players school when flashed accross the screen and did not graduate as approperate. On Sunday we all think that these are college graduates when it says John Doe University of Desert Knowledge or when the player say Jonh Doe in a cameo it is a lie much of the time. Also this is free advertisement for the school for failing a student and employing cash cow economics.
All the best. Bob.