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Education or Sports? Is this REALLY a question? ...it seems to be.

==="23,000 teachers were given pink slips in CA & 17,000 in IL. New Jersey, NY & FL are cutting teacher jobs & reducing salaries as well. We need to get our priorities in order.... Athletes get paid millions, but teachers who we trust to help raise & educate our kids get no respect" ===

...this is scary reality not only for current teachers...but future ones.
Why do people look and SPEND so much money on the latest teams, players, memorabilia and care so little on spending money on the child they kiss goodnight? How can there be places that the "The average teacher salary is $96,597 (Hastings) and the superintendent makes $228,000? There are AP courses with a handful of kids, kindergarten, Spanish, rich extracurricular arts and sports.", but yet there are thousands of jobless teachers who are working, dedicated, experienced and knowledgeable being kicked to the curb? Does this make sense to anyone? Yes, I understand teachers are need more in some places more than others, but how can we have hundreds of kids being born everyday but yet still lose the people that are to educate them?

Resources:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/nyregion/11towns.html?scp=3&sq=teacher%20salary&st=cse