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To: SilentZ who wrote (244685)	8/3/2005 3:26:11 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572365

I still don't agree, but even if there's a glut on teachers it should be solved by requiring higher standards for teachers. Requiring a Masters is a pretty high standard. I am required to take two tests in my endorsement area and a general test and pass all three before I can teach........in addition to my Masters degree. [To date, I have taken all but one]. And those tests are hard and become harder each year. The required GRE scores for my program are 1300.......that's not impossible but its a pretty high standard. And still the numbers who want to be teachers grow. My program turned away a lot of people. There were 200 applicants. They whittled that down to 70 interviews and they ended up with 30 in my cohort, one of the largest cohorts to date. Those statistics are being repeated in every school in Seattle. Too many good people want to do the job. There's no way that teachers should average two years in the field. I think that statistic is a New York one. I don't think it applies out here. Several of the people in my grad school cohort are teachers in private schools who want to work in public schools because they will get paid more........they already have three or four years under their belt and love it. When we've talked about it, they haven't indicated that a lot of teachers are leaving the profession and I haven't heard of such a statistic in the studies I've reviewed. The only time I have heard repeatedly of teachers leaving its to get their Ph.d and teach on the college level where there is more money. However, I will agree that the money is a problem. For the job they do, teachers are not paid nearly enough. ted