Buying your way out of gym

From The Washington Post

MIAMI — What with all those calisthenics and sweating, some kids would rather pay than go to gym class.
If only they had Terence Braxton, police say, as a teacher.
Braxton allowed kids to skip his class if they paid him $1 a day, according to charges filed by authorities in Escambia County, Fla. They say he may have racked up as much as $1,000 or more over three months.
The 28-year-old teacher has been charged with six felony counts of bribery and turned himself in on Thursday at a Pensacola jail. He was released on his own recognizance.
“If you had 100 kids paying, that’s not bad in tax-free money,� said Ronnie Arnold, associate superintendent of the Escambia County schools.

My Top 3 thoughts on this story:

1. Is is any wonder this nation has a problem with childhood obesity?

2. Why was it a gym teacher who thought of this first? Shouldn't a shady mathematics or business teacher have realized years ago the huge money-making opportunity that this presented?

3. If this had been offered when I was in high school, I could have avoided many disastrous gym-class kickball performances that ended up scarring me for life.