According to Salary.com, the median salary for an elementary school teacher in Los Angeles is just over $60,000. The average police officer makes less than $50,000.
Now compare teaching the next generation and keeping our streets crime-free to the 20 to 30 million dollars that some celebrities make per movie.
Is something completely backwards?
My sister is a teacher. I’m positive she would be the first person to tell you that teaching is a lot harder than $60,000 worth. And it’s a disgrace about police officers! They put their lives on the line every day to keep us safe. We have family friends whose son is a police officer in Pomona, a crime-ridden city just outside of Los Angeles. But he, like my sister, didn’t choose his profession to become a millionaire.
Maybe sister or our friend can’t cry on command like celebrities (actually she can, which got me in trouble many a time as kids), but aren’t their jobs more valuable than memorizing lines?
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Yes! You are so right. Something wrong with a society that underpays its teachers and public servants.
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Thanks for commenting! I felt like a bit of a rant, but it also felt good to get it off my chest!
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No need to apologize for your post. Teachers and folks who forego huge salaries to serve others are the foundation of our society. What’s bothered me most is how they are then vilified when they ask for a meager raise or better benefits. And it’s such hard hard work, and often thankless. But the difference they make is orders of magnitude greater than others. Ooo, is this getting rant-y? Sorry. Thanks for letting me share. 🙂
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you are right. They paid millions to celebrities and athletes so they can treat us the ones who makes them famous like invisible and the majority using it in drugs. What a shame.
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It is a shame. Unfortunately I suppose I contribute to something I so disagree with every time I go to the movies.
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