Deri, What percentage of UK kids drop out of high school? 200 K for teacher? wow! mag d'hag ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.zazzle.com/TamarMag* Tamar Mag Raine [log in to unmask] www.cafepress.com/tamarmag ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ----- Original Message ---- From: Deri James <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Friday, November 2, 2007 12:35:52 PM Subject: Re: Let's Shift Gears .... 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!! ----------------------- To change your mail settings or leave the C-PALSY list, go here: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?SUBED1=c-palsy ----------------------- To change your mail settings or leave the C-PALSY list, go here: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?SUBED1=c-palsy