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From: <Marsha -dot- Kamish -at- shell -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 12:29:28 -0500

FWIW. beginning teachers in Katy ISD (Houston area) make around $44,00 a year.

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> After years of reading and discussion, I don't believe that anyone
knows> how to fix US schools. More than half of my local high school's
senior> class (of 1000+) last year didn't qualify for graduation, and that is
an> awfully big deliverable blown.
>
> So sorry, but face up to it, you can't fix that with policies,
training,> and money. Leading education thinkers all advise home school. If you
are
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There was a time when a career teacher could support a family. It hasn't been that way for a long time. There was also a time when a high school education was considered enough to get a decent job. I got out of high school with far better reading and writing skills than many of the young MBAs I work with have.

I have a good friend who teaches English to "at risk" students. She makes less than half of what I make. Every year when the schools complain about funding, she wonders if she'll have a job in the fall. She's thinking of chucking it and going into copy writing.

I am amazed that schools can attract anyone to the career of teaching. When I was doing a job search I checked out the State Employment listings. A math teacher with a masters degree was being offered a starting salary of $18,000 a year in the public schools. A truck driving teacher at a State vocational school was offered $35.00 an HOUR. It says a lot about what we value.


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