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in my humble opinion, i believe our teachers should have to take a proficiency test before they can become teachers.

I really think it is wrong to blame the teachers…. watch that video of those thug kids in Chicago killing that boy… THOSE are the “students” that are sitting in classrooms around this country… How would YOU like to be trying to control a classroom full of those a-holes and illegal aliens?

in my humble opinion, i believe our teachers should have to take a proficiency test before they can become teachers.

They already do.

It’s called the Praxis, and most states use it. Some older teachers may know it by its previous name, the NTE.

RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com

About 15 years ago, a union steward asked me to break down my hourly pay for bargaining. It came out to something like $6.25/hr. I work all summer, most weekends, and at least three nights a week, though, until 9:00pm. The same can’t be said of a lot of my colleagues. Such is the life of a band director, I guess. But according to them (the other staff members), all I do is wave my arms for a living. Never mind the fact that I have had class sizes as large as 300 (in the room at the same time), have to teach the kids from the bottom, up, and have a side job similar to being an athletic director (scheduling, etc), have to teach theory classes, get extra duties they don’t want dumped on them, and so on. I have never really complained about it, because I love my job, and have always loved the kids under my instruction. Seventeen years later I probably make about $15-20 an hour, but I’d still rather do this than other jobs I’ve had (machine operator, truck driver, factory worker, etc). Seems like it means a lot more when I see the results.

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You can go to http://www.texes.ets.org/ for information on testing in the state of Texas.

http://www.factmonster.com/spot/schoolyear1.html

http://www.seanpaune.com/2009/09/27/obama-school-hours/

What’s fun is if you really dig a bit deeper. Compare how Germans educate their children with Americans. This is fascinating:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/klein.356/school_hierarchy

Teachers get paid more, because teachers do more – and there is FAR less “administrative” BS to drain valuable $’s away from the kids.

Plus, as said here, a lot less non-essential stuff is taught.

I just did the math, and I make about $21 an hour, hardly excessive for someone with a college degree.

You must be some sort of racist for saying this.

RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com

Our teachers are already paid the same salaries that people who work 2,000/hours a year are paid. Let’s see them actually work those hours…

Actually, teachers are paid on a 10 month scale, it’s just divided into 12 months so we get a check during the summer, too. I usually work about a 50-hour week, not counting the homebound student I teach, the extra-curricular programs I sponsor, or the additional duties, like chaperoning dances, that are a required part of the job. I just did the math, and I make about $21 an hour, hardly excessive for someone with a college degree.

Both parties are essentially the same.

Which is why I support neither.

RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com

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Patronedheart said:
The average of public school teacher’s salary is $51,009. If you divide that over a year at 9 hours a day, 9 months a year (2430 hours), you get an hourly rate of $21.00 an hour.

PH, 39 weeks @ 45 hours per week = 1,755, not 2,430, which = $29.06/hr. Deduct another month for Chistmas & Easter, I mean Winter & Spring breaks and the rate is $32.70. Oh yeah, then there’s MLK day, President’s day, Earth day…what a racket!