"FurPaw" <furrealpawdog@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> But there is one area here that is just crying for workers, and that is
> teaching math and sciences. There's a severe nationwide shortage of
> qualified teachers. Hubster was tutoring math at a high school in a
> low-income school district (to give himself something to stay busy; the
> school has about a 50% drop out rate) and they asked him to apply for a
> teaching position. Within two weeks (the time it took to process all of
> the paperwork), he was hired and found himself thrown into a classroom,
> mid-semester. He has 3 years to get a teaching certificate.
>
> Yeah, the pay is low, the students are unruly, undisciplined, and
severely
> undereducated at best, and it's been pretty stressful for him. But he's
> falling into the rhythm of it now and finding enough small rewards to
keep
> him going. He thinks next year will be better, when he starts the year
> out with a new crop of students - walking into a class that had had only
> substitutes for 7 weeks wasn't exactly an ideal situation.
>
> I know a guy with MAs in history and finance who was offered a job
> teaching physics in a rural high school. They were desperate for a body
> with teaching experience. He declined, because he never had taken a
> physics course, not even in high school.
>
> Me, I wouldn't have the patience nor the willingness to put up with the
> crap. College freshmen push me about as far as I'm willing to go.
Good luck to your DH! (That particular scenario wouldn't be for me,
either,
thank-you-very-much!)
Yeah... re: nation-wide shortage of qualified Math & Science teachers. I
know of a certified (retired) HS Math teacher who was doing long-term
subbing for over $300/day. In way upstate NY, not down in Westchester, on
LI, etc. For a comparison, my district - which is on the low side - pays
certified subs $75/day. Some other nearby districts pay more like $100 -
$125/day. So $300+ is incredible.
Cathy
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