A Basic Income Guarantee is on the horizon... Harry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen A. Lawrence" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, October 8, 2009 4:20 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:are we done?
> > > [email protected] wrote: > > A friend writes below. > > > > > > have another friend who's a professor of Biology at a university > who no > > longer works at that university (he resigned in emotional distress) > > who's now out looking for a job in high schools... He has a PhD > and 16 > > plus years of experience as a prof. > > > > And he hasn't found a job in a high school? Frank. That's scary. > > Not so sure about that. Requirements for high school teachers, > particularly in public schools, are quite different from > requirements on > a college prof. > > In particular you need to be a certified teacher to teach in most > (public) high schools; you do not in order to teach in most colleges, > including the top high-prestige schools. Teacher's colleges can grant > you a teaching degree; general technical and liberal arts colleges > generally don't. The average MIT or Harvard professor isn't qualified > to teach in the average public high school, because they haven't > got a > teaching certificate. > > As an example, here's a summary of the requirements to teach in an > Ontario public high school (requirements in state high schools in the > U.S. vary but aren't all that different from this): > > > To teach in a publicly funded school in Ontario you need an Ontario > > teaching certificate from the Ontario College of Teachers. To > obtain a > > teaching certificate you will normally need an undergraduate > degree, and > > one year of teacher training. Teacher training is available at > Ontario> universities offering the Bachelor of Education program. > > So your friend will need to go back to school for (at least) another > year to qualify as a high school teacher in most school districts, > because he very probably lacks a BE and a teaching certificate. > > Furthermore a college values a PhD very highly; a high school doesn't. > PhD's get more money and aren't any better than masters degrees in a > high school classroom, so why would they want them? The term > "overqualified" is very relevant here. > > > > And I > > have another friend who's been let go from the university as an > adjunct> professor without tenure. He taught music part time. Now > he's playing > > the piano in bars. > > > > Oh, what a world. I think our economy has irrevocably changed and we > > just haven't realized it yet. I do not believe we will come out > of this > > recession. I believe it is a permanent recession, a new economy, > and we > > must tailor our lives to fit it. > > > >
