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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For certain subjects like high school math and sciences, yes.

For self contained special education, also yes.

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For self contained, they are lucky to get a warm body. If anything, they should lower the requirement so that they can fill the role [/quote]

Putting warm bodies in these classrooms is unfair to the students, the other staff members who have to pick up the slack, and the warm bodies themselves. A Master's in Special Ed should be required and the pay should be above and beyond that of most other teachers on the MA pay scale.

They've been steadily lowering the requirements for years rather than trying to attract and retain highly qualified people to teach in these classrooms. It's not working.

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The way to attract and retain qualified special education personnel is to lighten the workload demands so they are realistic. Part of that means adjusting staffing standards at the state level to accurately reflect student needs. Nobody talks about this at the state level, they just keep throwing meager amounts of money at the problem when the real issue is staff training (a master’s is helpful but any educator will tell you the actually useful learning happened on the job) and adequate workloads.[/quote]

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