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!
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???