Show-Me Argument To Pay Teachers Less

Context . . . 

Patrick Mahomes is the highest-paid NFL player, carrying a contract value of $504.75 million and an average annual salary of $64 million.

Meanwhile . . . Our conservative friends mistakenly believe that 40K per year is more than enough to protect, educate and nurture local students.  

Here's their side of the story . . . 

"Yeah, and that’s honestly what’s been said a lot, and most of it revolves around, we’re not paying teachers enough. They usually point at our low salary, that it’s one of the worst in the nation, and say, well, if we had a higher average teacher’s salary then these things would be fixed. And even after we supposedly fixed them in twenty twenty-five when we raised the minimum teacher salary to forty thousand, we’re still seeing the same complaints."

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