[geeks] One of the things I love about America

[Gary Nichols]

**BINGO**

I've been preaching this ever since I left high school (about 14 years 
ago).  I wanted to teach SO BAD but I knew that I couldn't AFFORD to.
If I could make what I make now teaching, I'd be teaching in a heartbeat.

You also make a great point Greg -- raising the pay and watching the bar 
rise.  You'd see a lot of highly-paid professionals jump into education 
for the state benefits, the schedule and the satisfaction of helping 
students vs. satisfying a PHB.

Of course, there is a downside, right?  You get to deal with spoiled kids, 
whacked out parents, school boards that don't have a clue and cafeteria 
food.



 On 2 May 2002, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> I think raising teacher salaries is exactly the way to go.  At my high
> school, there were exactly three really smart teachers, a dozen or so
> that had a brain, and the rest (50 or so) who were nice people, but
> couldn't find a coherent sentence with two hands.  Teaching misses out
> on attracting some of the best and the brightest because everybody knows
> that teachers don't get paid.  If we made a big deal about all teachers
> getting six figure (starting) salaries, starting in, say, 10 years, I'll
> bet you that we'd have a whole bunch more DAMN smart people getting
> their teaching degrees in 10 years, and the trend would continue from
> there.  Of course, this is just my pet theory, and I have nothing to
> back it up.
> 	Greg