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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a nurse. I think nurses and teachers (and other professions that are not as well compensated as some of the DCUM professions) wouldn't complain as much if our salaries had kept up with inflation.  No one goes into these professions to make loads of money, but you want to be able to make a living.  
As far as demand/supply.  Maybe that works more in the corporate world?  In places with nursing shortages, they are not increasing wages.  They hire travel nurses (who are $$ but cheaper than hiring staff with benefits long tern), they push the limits on staffing to dangerous levels. Some hospitals have began to hire foreign born nurses so they do not have to spend as much money.

As far as teaching, is it really a supply/demand issue? I mean Florida is hiring people without any qualifications to teach. [/quote]

How long will they last? Teachers with education degrees and all the theoretical background that entails quit at a rate of over 40% in the first 5 years. Hiring anybody with a pulse, like FL has chosen to do, will be a bandaid measure at best. You’ll have an adult in a classroom until that adult decides to quit. It won’t take long under current conditions. You can make more with less stress elsewhere.

There are many, many certified teachers who are not teaching right now. In time, conditions will have to improve and many of them can return. What’s the alternative? One warm-bodied adult with 100 students online? That’s where we are heading. [/quote]

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