That's for a level 2 cert and so you can keep teaching. Only a bachelors and a certification are needed to begin teaching.

It's important educators continue their education and most of the time it's paid for.

Let them do their jobs.

Yeah I can see an arguement that some career training programs dont need to be a bachelors degree but simple certification. Although I will say everyone really should learn a foreign language, if only to be aware other cultures exist.

I'm just not sure if educators do not need a well rounded education especailly with how k-12 tends to teach all of those subjects and those subjects tend to intersect.

It’s also very difficult to involuntarily commit an adult and for his literal employer and coworkers to go to the effort of trapping him on a floor, I agree that it seems like something is missing.

I’ve also spent a lot of time on that particular unit and it’s incredibly emotionally and mentally draining, for both patients and staff. I’m not discounting his claims but def agree that there has to be more to this situation.

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Colleges claim that you need a "well rounded education" and it's their way of adding classes that you don't need as a required part of your degree. For example, I was a journalism major and still had to take multiple math classes, science classes, and a foreign language class - none of which was applicable to being a journalist in the slightest. The first two years of my four year degree were these general education requirements.

There are many degree programs that could be simplified and take two or three years. In Europe, many business school programs are only a year, for example. That way, you spend less money in loans, can enter the workforce earlier and it's less expensive to go back to school for further training.

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>Teachers get ~3 months off during the summer, a week off for spring break, almost a month off for winter break, almost a week for Thanksgiving, along with all other federal holidays. That's almost 4.5 months off work per year.

>So teachers are working less than 2/3 of the time an average white collar worker works. People cite "lesson planning" and claim it's outside of working hours, but teachers only teach ~3-4 classes each day, with the rest of the day preserved for this lesson planning and any miscellaneous tasks such as grading.

All of this is absolute horseshit. All the teachers I know and have worked with teach more classes, get almost no time during the working day to get anything done because prep periods get filled with tutoring/makeup work, meetings and bureaucratic paperwork. If they don't do after hour work at home, they'd get called a shitty teacher more than the other names oblivious shitbirds call them already.

This is the same mentality that leads Adjuncts to but their asses to run great courses in colleges, hoping for the chance to become full time or tenured...

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that carrot is awful, and needs removed

You folks get the really short end of the stick.

I quit in 2015 because of the saturated market and I wasn't making enough money with 2 kids to keep running the ISS room for $12.50/hr. Fuck that.

>stop underpaying teachers aid, subs, etc

This one hits home big time. I got my teaching license and took the first job offered to me: In school suspension teacher. My pay maxed out after 2 years at $12.50/hr yet they wanted me to have/maintain a license. That shit wouldn't even cover my loans and I already had a kid at that point.

I thought it would be a foot in the door to a full time position in my actual subject area. Every year I was there a position opened up but they didn't offer it to me because nobody wants the job dealing with the "bad kids" and I was way too good at it. I fuckin quit after 3years. The day I left I could have had an army of those "bad kids" follow me into battle without question because I was the only one to treat any of them like a real person. I don't even teach anymore, not for that kind of bullshit money.

The prices looked high when I first checked them. After I entered all the information they requested, I was able to get very affordable coverage. The deductible was more than I was used to, 75$ for a doctor's visit, but I had peace of mind knowing that I did have coverage. My monthly coverage was 59$ because I qualified for a discount. All I can say is try it and enter all your income accurately.

Depending on your income, you may qualify for discounts. But yes, health care is expensive and keeps going up.

Is it true teachers need masters degrees?

That seems stupid.

I may not work in education but I know enough to know that teacher unions are some of the most egregiously functioning bodies of people I’ve ever seen, especially in the way that they manage and allocate their funds.

Teachers unions will never agree to high accountability. You can’t fire teachers.

😂 knew it, you’re not informed enough in this area.

Plans look expensive. Like $211 minimum. Way higher than last time I saw the health marketplace website.

How about perks like student loan forgiveness on top of better pay? Oh and maybe all the school shootings might be influencing the exodus from teaching, maybe doing something about that might help.

First, undo the insane East and West PASSHE consolidation. Then start funding them all closer to the levels of the 1970’s. Then provide student loans at the 1970’s level: 6% state and 3% federal. The 14 PASSHE schools were all originally teacher colleges with a great record of feeding high numbers of new teachers to the PA, and the nation’s, classrooms, until the last 30 years when non-union PSU - with around 25 branch campuses - were converted to 4-year degree granting schools providing more than agricultural higher education to students, and unfair competition to PASSHE schools.

You know I'm right, that's why you've got nothing except cursing at me.

They need more money, but right wing politicians pitch fits anytime budgets for education get increased. It’s such an easy fix that would benefit everyone, but pigheaded stubbornness prevents it.

That makes sense for the secondary ones. I agree. It was the el ed one she couldn't pass.