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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They pooh-poohed the idea that the new times would be unpopular with the teachers.  Big mistake.[/quote]

No one is owed a job, so quit, and find something else. There are a lot of unemployed Fed. govt workers who couild fill the gaps. Plus In a year or two, as the economy worsens, there will be plenty of laid off workers eager and recent college grads eager for the cheap benefits and security of a steady paycheck. [/quote]

Sure.  Put in lots of unqualified people.   Anyone can teach.[/quote]

Virginia offers programs that allow those with at least a 4 year degree to apply and if hired qualify for a provisional license to teach.

Why would a recent college grad, who might not have otherwise thought of teaching, but is having trouble finding work, or an applicant with a prior career in the Fed Govt. be automatically unqualified in your view?

Government workers, have to show up on time, conduct themselves professionally, accept rank and file and adhere to and navigate typical govt. bureaucracy. Minus the classroom of unruly kids, sounds like a smooth cultural transition. So if they want to teach, and teachers are needed then what is the problem?

Recent and underemployed grads, bring youth, energy, learn quickly, have probably been exposed in recent memory to excellent teaching and inspired by excellent teachers, so know what it looks like and are more easily moldable than a more senior employee would be.

Teaching is like any other job, you bring some useful skills with you, and you acquire others along the way, and at some point you become a skilled and valued employee.[/quote]

Tbh though, I work with numbers for a living, and have no idea what my kids are doing in math.  They spend a lot of time on strategies that seem harder than the math problem in front of them....but they don't start teaching the direct way to solve until they are older.  [/quote]

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