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acroyearIn Search of Good Teachers - New York Times:
It's a big one.
A HUGE one.
"PAID"
Until this nation and these states and localities get off their collective anti-tax, anti-"socialist" arse and actually start PAYING people to be good teachers in those subjects, they will NEVER EVER EVER increase the candidate pool. When the difference between a math major doing engineering work 3 years out of college and a math major being a public school teacher 3 years out of college is a factor of FOUR, then there is simply no contest. To live well enough to match your own education and status, you need to be paid what your brain is worth or you will never find job satisfaction.
Giving a person a choice between a $26,000 teaching job and a $100,000 engineering or programming job?
Well, you could do the math if you ever had qualified teachers to teach you...
Teachers are not and have never been paid what they're worth. Change that, and you change everything.
With 50 million children set to return to school, districts all over the country are still scrambling to fill teaching positions and are having an especially difficult time finding qualified applicants to fill shortages in vital areas like math and science. These shortages will persist and the education reform effort will continue to lag until states, localities and the federal government start paying much more attention to how teachers are trained, hired and assigned.Guess which word is missing there.
It's a big one.
A HUGE one.
"PAID"
Until this nation and these states and localities get off their collective anti-tax, anti-"socialist" arse and actually start PAYING people to be good teachers in those subjects, they will NEVER EVER EVER increase the candidate pool. When the difference between a math major doing engineering work 3 years out of college and a math major being a public school teacher 3 years out of college is a factor of FOUR, then there is simply no contest. To live well enough to match your own education and status, you need to be paid what your brain is worth or you will never find job satisfaction.
Giving a person a choice between a $26,000 teaching job and a $100,000 engineering or programming job?
Well, you could do the math if you ever had qualified teachers to teach you...
Teachers are not and have never been paid what they're worth. Change that, and you change everything.
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Date: 2007-09-04 07:58 pm (UTC)You have no idea how difficult it has been just trying to get into PG Co. schools!!
This is one of the LOWEST RANKING DISTRICTS IN THE COUNTRY!! You remember that saying, "Beggars cannot be choosers."
These people are a joke. Im almost to the point of certification (having finished all my PRAXIS exams for now, and they still have not placed me. Meanwhile, there are people in the schools teaching who aren't certified, but have been either A)teaching longer or B)went through the "Resident Teacher Program...that's crap right there.
Personally, I'm now willing to take the pay cut and go to private schools (that's a 5-15k cut from 40k to anywhere from 26-30) just so I don't have to deal with the county anymore!
They are driving away people who are willing to teach in this county. And now I see why. I have become so insanely irritated...no joke.