is it too late to immigrate? 

--- Linda Macaulay <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Man, I should live in the UK!  I have been teaching
> for 12 years with  
> a Master's + 45 credits and only made $50,000 and
> that is in a GOOD  
> district!
> 
> Linda
> On Nov 2, 2007, at 3:35 PM, Deri James wrote:
> 
> > On Friday 02 November 2007 18:50:07 Cleveland,
> Kyle E. wrote:
> >> Ah..."teach to the test".  If I have one huge
> beef with Dubbya, "No
> >> Child Left Behind" and the resulting "teaching to
> the test" would  
> >> be it.
> >> In Ohio, many schools took the "Highly Qualified
> Teacher"  
> >> guidelines as
> >> set in stone and implemented the mandates that
> the secondary level
> >> teachers have 20 semester hours in the taught
> subject.  Whaddya
> >> know--Special Ed teachers teach EVERY core
> subject.  That means that
> >> certified SE teachers in Ohio would need to go
> back to school, full
> >> time, for two years in order to meet the
> guidelines.  They were  
> >> trying
> >> to apply these guidelines to teachers who had
> been in the  
> >> classroom 30+
> >> years!  No wonder these folks were taking early
> outs.  I think, in  
> >> part,
> >> a lot of school boards used "Highly Qualified
> Teacher" to get rid of
> >> expensive teachers with lots of years in the
> system and replace them
> >> with 20-somethings who would work for $20K per
> year.
> >>
> >
> > In the UK the "fresh out of college" teachers get
> $40k (in your  
> > money), Head
> > teachers top scale is $200k!!!
> >
> >
>
<http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/docbank/index.cfm?id=10995>
> >
> > £1 Å $2
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Deri
> >
> > PS We land at Orlando 15:25 tomorrow - sort of a
> late Halloween  
> > really!!
> >
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