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Why do teachers get paid a debatably decent salary, but most coaches are not paid at all?
I understand the argument that many times coaches are Billy Jones’s father or a mother who volunteers, but why not pay him or her? Coaches spend on average 80 hours during a typical season not only in coaching but putting up with all types of abuse from parents and dealing with kids (some of whom whine and complain because they don’t want to be there in the first place).
The reward should be more than a plaque at the end of the season that reads, “Thanks, Coach.”