The following is a visualization based on average national teacher salaries. I played around with many of the graphing tools that were offered up to me in the assignment. However, when all was said and done, all I did was use simple graphing tools on Google. There you have it!
The injustice of it all!
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Alex Rodriguez, who is the highest paid player in major league baseball, is set to make $29,000,000 this year alone.
That is more than the president of the United States. Crazy, huh? To put this in perspective, I thought it would be interesting to compare this salary to that of teachers. Here’s what I came up with.
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Salary in a Year
Where’s the teacher salaries? See that tiny sliver?
So how many years would it take these teachers to make A-Rod’s one year salary?
One more stat. . .
I find these numbers alarming, especially since professional athletes are taught by fine teachers. What are your thoughts???