The Teacher and His Favorite Pupil

Back in primary school when I was in primary four, I had this class teacher who was nothing but the devil himself. This man derived pleasure in torturing us, his pupils. He would organize random quiz and then flog the living daylight out of us if we failed any. I remember that the only time we were happy was when it was time for us to go home from school.

Unfortunately all complains to our parents fell on deaf ears, my parents in particular weren't the type to visit my school for anything, and at first I liked it because whenever I got into trouble and was asked to bring my parents to school the next day, my eldest brother was usually the one who filled in that role for them and seeing how he's my guy, I never really got punished for anything but I digress.

My teacher back then, even for the slightest of mistakes would always punish everyone of us, all of us except for one girl. His excuse for not hitting her was because he didn't want her screaming, meanwhile we all knew he favored her because she was the most brilliant amongst us, so she was the one he liked the most, his favorite pupil.

Anyways, I'm not telling you guys this story to relive the horrors of my childhood but I'm saying it because for some weird reasons, today's contest topic kinda reminds me of the class teacher and his favorite student.

Now the question for today's contest is pretty direct and so is the answer, do I think all workers should earn equal pay? No, I do not. To be honest, it's crazy that is even something that is up for debate. All workers shouldn't earn equal pay because they all don't work the same job.

If you ask me, I'd say that everyone should be paid based on how much work they do and how important their job is. So people like health workers, teachers, police officers and firefighters (to mention a few) should be at the top of that list because these are the kind of people whose jobs really matters. Unfortunately those kind of jobs don't get the big bucks, but instead it's the entertainers, the actors and athletes that do.

Now I'm not saying that these people don't put in a lot of work in what they do, but compared to police men and healthcare workers, their job really isn't that important is it? I mean I can go ten years without having to watch a football match or a basketball match, but ten years without a doctor then you pray you don't get sick.

So yeah that is my take on the topic, all jobs doesn't deserve equal pay, some deserves to be paid a lot more higher than the rest due to the importance of their job and how hard they work, and for those who choose not to work hard, they shouldn't be favored just like the little girl got favored by my teacher, they should be punished by getting lesser pay or in my case, getting ass whooped.

_{All images used are either mine or belongs to Bruno-kema who gave me the permission to use it.}