WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!
I remember having a conversation with someone from high school, I stated that we were indeed getting old and our 10 year anniversary is coming faster than we realize. This person shook his head and stated that, "I am nowhere near where I want to be"; a looked at him with a strange face, for his person has graduated and is now moldding their own life. I said, "where do you want to be" and a elborate tale followed. It ended with, "I'm not going to my reunion unless I have a million in the bank". I laughed, be this person was serious.
When did your banking account become the judge of your well-being?
Every one of my old friends I run into always says "Oh, you in IT and graduated...Your set". That couldn't be further from the truth. Just cause you make X number of dollars doesn't mean your living on sugar hill. I owe more than I make, which is the case with most college grads. While at Mason, a student a couple years back posted the salaries of all employees of the University. This person went to court and won the battle to post them openly. I check it one day, curious of what this teachers make and was shocked. I had a great english teacher one semister, she listened and helped the students in every way she could. I scrolled down to check her salary....30k???!! I then looked at the highest paid people in the university....the President and the Basketball coach.....huh???
Did I see this right? The person who is helping me get an education and teaching me life lessons is making about 1/4 the salary of our basketball coach?? We haven't been to the NCAA tournament since 2000 and he is getting 6 figuers??? I couldn't believe myself!
Fastfoward to the present, where I come home, get into my chill clothes and park myself infront of my tv and turn on sportcenter, they were discussing T.O. or "the asshole" as I call him, and how much money he is going to miss out on due to his "episodes". "Roughly around 4 Million dollars". 4 Mill??? Thats a lot of money....to the average indivisual. He probably has that much tied up in cars and houses. Probably one of his houses are 4 mill. We pay these "athelets" millions of dollars to see them play a sport; but yet we can only give the teacher of our students 30k???? What the hell is wrong in this world?
"They get hurt, they put their bodies on the line every time they play"....and they have some of the best doctors in the world! Yet, when I get a cold, Nyquil is recommended by 4 out of 5 9-5 employees. This world is ass backwards, and its depressing.
At work, I was talking to our intern (Sup Paolo), he had in his AIM profile that Virginia Tech athletes; who have a "free ride" to the university are living in section 8 housing in Blackburg for little or no rent; taking spots for needing families who don't have the joys of getting a free education. Not to mention, the University gives them a cut every month for living off campus, so they can use that on anything they want, be it books, clothes, Xbox, shoes, liqour, etc. Oh, I forgot to mention that they have the option to live on campus as well, cause there is more than enough space for them. Yet, a family on welfare has to wait and recieve rejection letter after rejection letter cause they have no spots. The Univeristy knows about this and states "if they aren't breaking the rules then they are allowed to do it". No offense, but VT has to be the most ass backwards school for stating that. (Also, there are others Univeristies doing the same thing). How about having a heart and giving to those in need? I think not doing that is "breaking the rules".
So we give athletes the best of the best and give the teachers of our youths nothing.....WAKE UP!!!!!
When did your banking account become the judge of your well-being?
Every one of my old friends I run into always says "Oh, you in IT and graduated...Your set". That couldn't be further from the truth. Just cause you make X number of dollars doesn't mean your living on sugar hill. I owe more than I make, which is the case with most college grads. While at Mason, a student a couple years back posted the salaries of all employees of the University. This person went to court and won the battle to post them openly. I check it one day, curious of what this teachers make and was shocked. I had a great english teacher one semister, she listened and helped the students in every way she could. I scrolled down to check her salary....30k???!! I then looked at the highest paid people in the university....the President and the Basketball coach.....huh???
Did I see this right? The person who is helping me get an education and teaching me life lessons is making about 1/4 the salary of our basketball coach?? We haven't been to the NCAA tournament since 2000 and he is getting 6 figuers??? I couldn't believe myself!
Fastfoward to the present, where I come home, get into my chill clothes and park myself infront of my tv and turn on sportcenter, they were discussing T.O. or "the asshole" as I call him, and how much money he is going to miss out on due to his "episodes". "Roughly around 4 Million dollars". 4 Mill??? Thats a lot of money....to the average indivisual. He probably has that much tied up in cars and houses. Probably one of his houses are 4 mill. We pay these "athelets" millions of dollars to see them play a sport; but yet we can only give the teacher of our students 30k???? What the hell is wrong in this world?
"They get hurt, they put their bodies on the line every time they play"....and they have some of the best doctors in the world! Yet, when I get a cold, Nyquil is recommended by 4 out of 5 9-5 employees. This world is ass backwards, and its depressing.
At work, I was talking to our intern (Sup Paolo), he had in his AIM profile that Virginia Tech athletes; who have a "free ride" to the university are living in section 8 housing in Blackburg for little or no rent; taking spots for needing families who don't have the joys of getting a free education. Not to mention, the University gives them a cut every month for living off campus, so they can use that on anything they want, be it books, clothes, Xbox, shoes, liqour, etc. Oh, I forgot to mention that they have the option to live on campus as well, cause there is more than enough space for them. Yet, a family on welfare has to wait and recieve rejection letter after rejection letter cause they have no spots. The Univeristy knows about this and states "if they aren't breaking the rules then they are allowed to do it". No offense, but VT has to be the most ass backwards school for stating that. (Also, there are others Univeristies doing the same thing). How about having a heart and giving to those in need? I think not doing that is "breaking the rules".
So we give athletes the best of the best and give the teachers of our youths nothing.....WAKE UP!!!!!
posted by BMass at 21:19
5 Comments:
Amen to that brother..
me and my roommate (Va Tech grad) got into a yelling arguement friday night about it at like 3 in the morning.. all he could say was "you see how much money they bring to Blacksburg?? That town would be nothing without the football team"..
Of course, he didn't know that roughly 75% of the revenues earned from football games goes not only to football scholarship atheletes, but supports ALL scholarship atheletes across their 16 sports program.. the other 25% is split among school expenses, traveling bills, and also "appearance fees", which they pay some crappy team to be a part of their schedule...
and all he could rebuttle with was "They make more money for the state than that little town ever could"..
where did we go wrong? when did money take over for how big your manhood is? b/c if you ask me, neither of them actually matter...
well, some would beg to differ..
=)
Honestly your right...the world is bass aackwards man. You wouldnt believe how underpaid teachers are. Sys goin to be a teacher for tha next school year...fresh outta school tryin to teach she would make less than 30k...in order to make some decent money she must get certified (15+ graduate level credits). Then she might make around 35-40. If we compare that shit to IT...with no degree, 150 dollars to get MCP certified...and an ounce of brain power you can easily make 35-40k. Easily. Get a certification like MCSE or CISSP and your set....minus tha universitized education...
Our priorities are all jacked up but I think its tha gov'ts fault since they are the ones controlling what teachers make...Think of any high paying job and you will find that it is the consumer who generates tha higher salaries based on tha demand of their trade. With Doctors...patient pays...With Sys admin...Company pays...With Atheletes...sports fans pay...
I think tha sad truth is that the gov't just doesnt want to pay. That is how it is with everything they do. If you were to work with tha gov't for IT you would be getting low balled. Its tha way they work...its how they cut operating costs...but them politicians are makin them dollars.
I think the way to end this is to cut tha funds of some of them high paid politicians (::cough:: Presidents ::cough::) and tac it on to teachers salaries. Let them politicians really know what its like workin for tha gov't and put tha money with tha people who actually make sense and serve a purpose...our teachers!
Teachers get paid pittances becuase that's what the market can bear. It's supply and demand. I mean, staffing issues can be a hassle anywhere, but consider the case where you'd need to replace a college level basketball coach versus the case where you'd need to replace a untenured college professor. For the former, you have a small eligible pool of canidates who are available at the time. For the latter, you have a relative glut of grad students fresh out of their PhD program looking to get a foot in the door. Is it completely assbackwards considering the responsibilites and the goals of an American University? Sure. Same goes for your athletic student. They get pampered because there's less of them that can compete at a given level. Is it completely assbackwards given the responsibilites and goals of an American University? Sure. On the other hand, there's a glut of students there trying to actually learn. So you pamper those assets which are rare (athletics) and you treat the rest as mere chattel becase you can, whereas in the former circumstance, you can't.
As for the "being set" issue, perhaps you underestimate the value of your position. I mean, all college grads have debt, that's par the course. It's par the course to have a LOT of that debt. But you have a job, and an abode, and friends, an a career path, so in a sense, you are set. There are many that don't have any one of the above, and instead of moving forward, they just wheel around in place, doing nothing but maintaining the status quo. I'm not agreeing that waiting until you have a 1M in the bank is nessicarily healthy, but you shoudln't downplay your position so easily.
WOW....enlighting that's all I can see. I still don't see how people who spend their time and efforts in creating lesson plans to expand the minds of our youth today are being paid less than someone who only works for a "season"
What a great post. This is a subject that hits home for me. You didn't even mention the number of athletes that get into trouble for murder and rape and other crimes. If I was in sports and making all that money, you wouldn't ever hear my name in the news, except during the sports segment.
So, I had a professor in undergrad who was so disillusioned with the system that she reminded us of all the people who are super-rich but don't have college degrees (e.g., Bill Gates). Now that I'm in the business of education, I see firsthand the sacrifice that educators make. We give up better salaries and hours of our own time to teach people who will work in industries that offer so much more money and recognition.
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