Fran on NFL run like education system

[TexasDevilDog]

“Imagine the National Football League in an alternate reality. Each player’s salary is based on how long he’s been in the league,” writes Tarkenton. “And if a player makes it through his third season, he can never be cut from the roster until he chooses to retire, except in the most extreme cases of misconduct.”

Anyone who tried to change the way football was played would be vilified as vengeful and anti-football, Tarkenton said.

“A few wild-eyed reformers might suggest the whole system was broken and needed revamping to reward better results, but the players union would refuse to budge and then demonize the reform advocates: ‘They hate football. They hate the players. They hate the fans’,” wrote Tarkenton.

“The on-field product would steadily decline. Why bother playing harder or better and risk getting hurt? No matter how much money was poured into the league, it wouldn’t get better. In fact, in many ways the disincentive to play harder or to try to stand out would be even stronger with more money,” said Tarkenton.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/64977.html

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Answer: No time, taking three classes and working 40 hours a week.

[mustangguy289]

Do not try to bring common sense to anything run by the government.

[Forever_frost]

Makes sense to me. Unions are the death knell

[Moose242]

This is why my kids will go to private school, and then a private university.

[Jimbo]

I'm amazed that common knowledge, such as this, seems less common everyday. The natural state of any human interaction mandates that incentives are based on performance, and that creates positive growth. How far has society fallen that people need to be reminded that effort and work yield gains? The goverment taking more incentive away from workers and producers yields less production.

[FastFox]

There should be no scores kept. Keeping score just makes one team feel less valuable. In fact, just play between the 20 yard lines. Once you got to the other team's 20, you all shake hands and turn the ball over to the other team. We need to be mindful of every one's feelings. We have to be more caring and sensative.

[ceyko]

I'm of the opinion we have nobody to blame but ourselves. I often wonder if my way of thinking is in the minority now. Surely if I thought like the majority schools would be as strict as when I attended them.

I can look back and although I hated 90% of my teachers, I think 95% of them were good teachers and tried. However, they had the authority to make life hell at school and at home.

Meaning, if it was my word against the teacher's - my parents generally believed the teacher since they did have integrity. (I was usually the liar anyway) The school could paddle, restrict recess, put you in a corner and so on.

It was smaller town schools that I went to though. I have no experience with big city schools at this point. Just seems super easy for kids to whine and get teachers/administrators fired without much effort.

I'm only aware of one childhood teacher being fired and it was for punching kids. Hell he did it to me once and I deserved it. In my eyes, why whine about it if I deserved it? Anyway, someone did and he got fired.

It's hard for me to determine where the real disconnect is at these days. I know several family kids that are 10-22 y/o and they are plenty intelligent from public schools. However, they put the effort into learning and it worked for them.

It does seem like a whole lot of money is being pissed away with no real increase (statistically).

I will say, administrators need to get their heads on straight. Sports should always be secondary to education in K-12. I don't care what sport it is either.