John D. Giorgis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >However, AFAIK, there isn't much of a teacher > > >shortage in the country these days... which > > >implies that teachers are being paid plenty. > > >I'd believe that teachers are underpaid if you > > >could demonstrate a nationwide teacher > > >shortage..... > >
Jon Gabriel wrote: > > There's a *huge* multipage section on the ed.gov > > website which lists teacher shortages by curriculum > > for every state. I studied it when my wife was job > > hunting at the end of last year: > > http://www.ed.gov/offices/OSFAP/Students/repayment/teachers/tsa.html > > I'd say that's pretty comprehensive evidence of a > > widespread nationwide teacher shortage. Also, I've > > seen statistics (I'm sure I could dig 'em up > > somewhere if pressed) that most teachers leave the > > profession within 5 years. Not a ringing > > endorsement for the job. Nick Arnett wrote: > Here in California, we're eliminating the teacher shortage. > First, we made money available to train new teachers in > exchange for a three-year commitment. A lot of people > took advantage of that over the last few years, so we had > quite a few more teachers available. Now we're closing the > gap *completely* (and then some) by cutting school funding, > which will eliminate all of the unfilled positions *and* > require schools to lay off the vast majority of those whom > we just trained. Bingo, no more teacher shortage. > In fact, now we have a teacher surplus! > > This reminds me of the story of the night shift superviser > at Network Solutions, when it had the monopoly on domain > name registration, who improved his efficiency ratings by > destroying the requests that his team didn't get to. > Look, no more unprocessed requests! One hundred percent > efficiency! > There was a news story last month about a contractor for the INS that did that to their backlog of immigration paperwork. In many cases, this included shredding the original documents, such as passports, supplied by the immigrants as part of their requried paperwork. http://www.murthy.com/ukindict.html -- Matt h _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
