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Should NFL Rules Apply to Teachers?

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    Famed quarterback Fran Tarkenton on meritocracy in education

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A -- -- not bad today stirring up a lot of buttons it was written by a hall of fame quarterback -- tar content.

Who at -- is at an alternative reality where the National Football League plays by the same rules that -- -- teachers in our public schools.

Each player's salary based on how long he's been in the league not what his performance as -- as a player makes it through three seasons.

He can -- be kept from the roster how about that.

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You and my father were teammates together -- get there's a disclaimer right.

Jan -- -- you your father the general Bob Lee was and -- we played together for five or six years and He was a terrific quarterback and I enjoyed playing with it.

Well we'd stick yeah I appreciate that we move right on to talk about this op Ed and I was wondering if you were talking about this in in your house when you were playing the what what meet you right.

Well you know I want -- have some solutions and I'm not -- expert on education I'm an expert on.

Success and failure in both football and business.

And I know that.

That if we and sent people.

If we reward people for hard work and innovation and creativity and there's no the meritocracy works meritocracy work.

Back in Jeffersonian days it works is the foundation of America and we go away from him meritocracy.

We failed when we stay with meritocracy.

We we we we succeed and that's about in sending people.

It rewarding people for innovation creativity both formats and certainly in football that's what it's all about what we perform we -- -- -- -- -- -- you know as you -- my father's according back my mother was teacher of public school teacher and this this question about meritocracy always comes up as as far as how you measure in the body of statistics you -- losses.

And in public school -- the diversity of the students and the diversity of the school districts.

Made that type the statistics and trying to find a way to measure meritocracy.

More challenging when He sick of that.

Well I I think it does my father was a teacher to -- no that's good teachers good coaches good monitors are or so are so important.

And when we cannot not they're they're people much smarter than me and the educational system -- in the educational system.

And not -- to challenge them to find ways to make this work because when we go into it a system.

That is is not accountable.

That we don't reward great performance we don't -- -- success in teaching then we get mediocrity and we've we've witnessed that that our system is broken we need to fix it.

We think building more schools and have a more computers and is going to solve the system is not is putting in the right system which America was built on.

Is that if you work hard you're creative you're innovative.

And you're successful you can do anything and we need to apply that to our educational system to that is the future of America.

As a very interesting not bed and we were gonna put it up on our web sites -- viewers' -- can read it for themselves a great comparison to football on and I wish they were -- -- It -- breaking news in Texas still have you back -- eleven attacks you more about the economy and and everything out sir thank you very much.

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