We need professional referees—but not teachers?

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The National Football League referee dispute is over. Football is safe. But that may not be the case for education.According to The Daily Beast, on Saturday morning the black-and-white-striped union approved a new eight-year deal with the NFL by a vote of 112 to 5.The news has been received positively after a really bad call in the Green Bay Packers/Seattle Seahawks game last Monday. NFL Referees Association has agreed to return to work. After that game, the fans realize that referees can’t be replaced on the cheap. They need training. And yet, much of the public, outside of Chicago, still believes that teachers are replaceable and getting off easy. The replacement referees lacked experience and training for what they were doing. And for a while the NFL believed they could get by on the cheap without union personnel.They don’t mind mined extra pay for decent referees, but they expect teachers, who have a much more difficult job, to come and work for cheap, with no benefits or unions. What is wrong with this picture? -សតិវ អតុ