[geeks] New Tech Schools: Digital Harbor in Baltimore

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> Hardly anyone in any profession is at the top in Tidewater... :)

Eeeewww!  Not good.


> No, this is in comparison with other professionals, doesn't even include
> blue collar.

But how are the averages determined?  That can make a big diffference.

> If teachers are underpaid around here, then so is everyone else.

Makes no sense.  Then how would they know?  Oh, sorry, that was your
point.
 
> Also, teachers have a lot of garanteed perks, raises, and other benefits
> that just about no other workers can get.
> 
> One big perk is that it appears to be impossible to fire them.

No.  It is possible.   Sometimes for the simplest reasons.

> > > Also, there is more to education than college. I know welders who've
> > > had several times as much classroom work as any teacher. Society just
> > > doesn't view things like that, even if it is courses in advanced
> > > physics, as "education". Likewise any cop whose been around for awhile
> > > has had literally years of classroom education, and I don't just mean
> > > "crime" classes.
> > 
> > Ah, but can they do my job?  Or should I ask, do they want to do my job? :)
> 
> They have to teach all the time, and a good number of them teach in high
> schools and college.

Do they or is it by choice?  I almost did a college gig.  Teach one class and
be an adjunct professor.  Turned it down.

> It used to be that way in a lot of professions, but training in the
> workplace is pretty much gone. People say it has something to do with
> tax changes in the late 60s, but I don't quite follow how that caused
> the end of mentorship and company training.
> 
> > > Locally teachers hit their top retirement rate faster than almost any
> > > other civil servant in the same pay range.
> > 
> > Now you say civil servant.  What about the other jobs in your comparison?
> 
> I say civil servant because they usually have it easier than the common
> private worker.

Depends.  I work harder now than when I worked in a factory.  I also think
my job has more requirements and duties than, lets say a postal worker or
working in MV (where it hasn't been privatized).
 
> Of course, in the last few years civil service has become less
> attractive, with tons of them being threatened with job loss and no
> benefits.
> 
> For decades it was the job that couldn't lose, but that seems to be
> changing.

In some areas. 
 
> Yes, I'm being sarcastic.  Whatever smarts Jesse has, he uses for evil
> purposes.

I'll be nicer.  He tends to feather his own nest.  Him and Rev. Al.

Bob