05-16-2008, 07:01 AM
Great post kandrathe, I found the bit about how your communities pay for things like the fire department very enlightening, I wasn't aware of these things. I fully agree with the fact that if you let a government pay big salaries for certain jobs, like teaching, you will most likely attract a lot of person not able to teach and just in it for the money. There needs to be some other 'great thing' about it.....like the old fashioned respect. But how bring that back?
I have a friend with a Ph.D who is teaching on high school.....he is the only one with that education on his (quite big) school, many don't even have a masters degree.
Same goes for (example from Holland) this school that teaches to become an educator. Apparently more than half of the people doing this school (so these are people that want to go and become a teacher) could not to maths on a 7 grade (elementary school) level, the level of kids aged 10 to 11.
I have a friend with a Ph.D who is teaching on high school.....he is the only one with that education on his (quite big) school, many don't even have a masters degree.
Same goes for (example from Holland) this school that teaches to become an educator. Apparently more than half of the people doing this school (so these are people that want to go and become a teacher) could not to maths on a 7 grade (elementary school) level, the level of kids aged 10 to 11.