HsiaoChu
Recycles dryer sheets
- Joined
- Feb 26, 2010
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My goodness. I was just inquiring as to the specific example that ziggy29 has been talking about for months as being a bit inequitable. I don't understand how the other comparisons you suggest pertain to that. I guess I'll back out of the discussion NOW. (tiptoe-ing away)
Seemed like an interesting thing to know. You don't have to tiptoe away. There are enormous inequities in the world. Right now after all the civil rights stuff, except for public education, women always make about 88% less than men on average in the highly touted example business world that everyone in education is supposed to emulate.
I don't know how an aide in my system could be "promoted" to a teacher. Teachers need a full four year degree, and then virtually a masters after 5 years to keep teaching. Almost eveyone with more than five years of experience in PA has a masters degree. Aides generally have a high school diploma. A few have college degrees, but they have been out of it so long that they couldn't possibly pass the praxis exam in the area of education to be "highly qualified" under the mandatory No Child Left Behind legislation.
Its a well known fact that educators should make less that other similiarly trained and experienced professionals because those people leech their money out of us through product costs which is just ok, and the educators do it from taxes, which is just not OK.
Just my observation after 40 years in the education business.
Not to be perceived as everywhere; your environment may be different.
Z