Should Extra-Curricular Fine Arts Teachers be Paid the Same as Sports Coaches?

Nick Bubb:

Last week the Capital Times ran a story about how Tom Hardin, the head coach of forensics and drama at James Madison Memorial High School, plans to retire from coaching at the end of the season. There was even a follow up blog by the Capitol Times reacting to the discussion of the story.

As an assistant coach for Memorial forensics and debate program for several years, I read the paper and the comments in the online version with a more critical eye than others. It's worthwhile to point out that I am extremely biased on this issue. Tom Hardin and Tim Scheffler taught me how to be a speech and debate coach and gave me a job that supported me throughout my post secondary education.

My responses to the news and comments are as follows:

More here.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at February 7, 2010 1:01 AM
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