Professional Athletes: Should Teachers Get Paid?

Teachers should be paid more because “They work outside of the classroom” (Snyder). They have to work on lesson plans, grade their assignment, tests, and quizzes (Snyder). In 5 Reasons Why Teachers Need To Get Paid More, it says, “If you take into account the average teacher’s salary and the hours they spend at work, they could probably make more money being an hourly wage employee.” (Snyder). They should be getting paid more because they do not get paid enough with how much they do outside of work to be able to do what they do in the classroom. Teachers work very hard for what they do and to get everything done.

College sports have a big market on the major school levels. These major schools can bring in 30 to 40 million dollars per year to the school through the athletic programs. The players get none of this share of money even though they are the ones who have to put themselves at risk during these tough games that provide the school profit. You may say that these college athletes are getting a free education at their choice of university but some many say they should get paid. Today as much money that runs in and out of these schools there is a huge controversy to whether or not these student athletes should get rewarded for their hard work on and off the

But why should a student athlete be paid in the first place? Their just athletes right? They go to school just like everyone else? What makes them so special? What makes a college athlete different than the average student is the amount of revenue that they help bring to their selected colleges. This type of revenue is made up from ticket sales, merchandise, media rights and contributions. “USA today” reported that the University of Texas generated $167.7 million dollars from their athletic programs, and that’s just one school. With this in mind, imagine just how much money other colleges are making from their athletics. Sure one can make the argument that they should not be paid because they are not professionals, but one can’t ignore the fact that they are bringing in millions of dollars and seeing none of it.

Another argument why college athletes shouldn’t be paid is that it would be hard to control. With all that athletes playing college sports how would you know how much to pay each player. This is a simple fix. You just give every college athlete a base salary. You set the amount of money each athlete gets and no certain athlete gets anymore or any less. People could argue that this is unfair because some athletes put in more time than others and some sports produce more revenue than others. This is a valid point. If you work harder and for longer than another athlete why should you get paid the same amount as them? If this is the case pay the athletes a base salary of say $2,000 a year and however long the athlete’s sport goes for take that ratio to the year. So if you do a sport that takes up 6 months of the year, that is half a year of athletics so you get half the amount a full year of athletics would get. In this case you would end up only getting $1,000. Another strong argument is that what if the athlete plays two sports like Heisman Trophy winner Jameis Winston. He plays both quarterback in football and pitcher in baseball. In this case he should get just as much as everybody else who plays a sport that takes up a full year like football. He would not get any additional bonuses to the base salary. If you had a part time job that pays federal minimum wage which is $7.25

Can you imagine being a firefighter saving lives, but a college athlete making more money than you? How would that make you feel? People all over the world are saving lives, yet athletes make more than them. Many people have researched this topic on weather college athletes should be paid to play or not. I strongly disagree to college athletes being paid to play.

Also, college athletes should not be paid because that is not the purpose for going to college. Many argue that is not he purpose for going to college. Many argue that going to college is not for money but for education (should college...1). They should not be paid because playing a sport is not a job. Students go to college to take classes to later have a career. Also, not all colleges make enough money for all of the athletes to be paid (“Should College...1”). There are a ton of athletes that participate in many sports in college. There are too many athletes at a college for all of them to be paid.

Spreading the money to the athletes that bring such large amounts of revenue to the schools would be a good benefit for each individuals work. These benefits would especially help the larger money producing sports, because generally these take up more of a student’s time. Sports such as, football, baseball, and basketball, taking into consideration that those are the sports that make the most profit and consume the most time. “I’m interested in seeing the people who produce the revenue share a teeny, tiny slice of it. That’s right, football and men’s basketball players get paid; lacrosse, field hockey, softball, soccer player get nothing” (Wilbon). When the topic arises, this is the basic way for people to describe their point of view. There are more than just those two sports than deserve to be paid. There are a variety of

I think student athletes should get paid because they practice and play for 40 hours a week no time to work or get money to spend on extra expenses.Also no time to be a child or a student.

If Michael Jordan made one shot in basketball, he would make four times what a teacher makes in one year! Does that sound fair to you? I think that pro athletes get paid way too much money to play a simple game. Pro athletes get paid more than the most important jobs in the world. The President makes four hundred thousand dollars a year, and a pro athlete’s minimum starting salary is 200,000 dollars a year, which, chances are, if they have been in the league for a year or two they’re already in the millions (scholastic action).

With how much work these teachers are doing why are they getting paid so little? Without the knowledge that teachers give students, everyone would be nowhere. Everyone would be in a whole, so I don’t see the point in giving all that money to one group instead of spacing it out for everyone to have. Would it be great to make almost $11 million a year to play a basketball game? Many professional athletes, certainly think so, but do these athletes deserve all that money? In my mind no, professional athletes are making too much money in a society where salaries and wages must be looked at on the value of one's work. In today's society, one should earn according to the job’s economic importance and their value to society. (bleacher

Even though professional athletes get paid a lot of money, they have put in many hours of extremely hard work. Without the high pay in pro level sports, athletes may not want to work as hard when they are younger, because they have nothing to look forward to. However, many citizens are trying to fight against athletes getting paid a lot of money, an try to lower their pay. Pro athletes aren't paid too much because they are more prone to get injured, their careers do not last very long, and they have worked and payed money their whole lives to get were they are now.

The average salary for a teacher is approximately $55,000 per year. LeBron James makes more in 50 minutes than a teacher makes in a month. He makes $71 million a year. Many professional athletes get paid millions of dollars. Some people think that these athletes get paid way too much money when doctors, firefighters, teachers, soldiers, and other professions don't make near as much money as professional athletes. Now, some people don’t think professional athletes get paid too much. They say it's because all the pain, hard work, effort, and the other things they go through just to get paid gobs of money. I think that professional athletes get paid way too much money just to play a game that usually last around a couple of hours.

This is why I believe college athletes should get paid because they need financial support for the future, should they be paid for more than just their scholarship but the work the ut in on the field and in the classroom.Lastly to be honest the players do all the work meanwhile the coaches get paid millions of dollars to do nothing but yell and make a game plan. I don't know if this changed your outlook on my topic or not but if I didn't that doesn't matter because I know my topic is

As you can see professional athletes get paid too much and don’t even work as hard as others that have real jobs. If they get paid less then they won't think that they are the best and will actually try hard and be at their practice or games every time. Also, if they get paid less more people would work harder to get to the top so they get paid more. Finally, most of them didn’t even finish college, so they shouldn’t get paid millions and millions of dollars every year.

Professional athlete's salaries are disproportionate and unfair. Firstly, their jobs don't play as important a role as others, for example, firefighters, doctors, soldiers, and police officers who save lives, while in some cases risking their own, only make a fraction of what basketball players make. Our future economy relies on the education of youth and, unfortunately, teachers are paid extremely less than professional athletes, in fact, Forbes (a popular source for reliable business news and financial information) 2014 list of highest paid athletes, states that professional basketball player, Kobe Bryant is paid $7,015.89 per hour. Based on the contract between the province and the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Association at the Toronto District School Board teachers in their first year are paid at lowest $45,709 and the salary of a teacher with