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 ≈ $2
>
> Cheers
>
> Deri
>
> PS We land at Orlando 15:25 tomorrow - sort of a late Halloween  
> really!!
>
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