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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So a first-year teacher makes as much as the county's median income, and they feel underpaid?[/quote]
So a first-year doctor makes as much as the county's median income, and they feel underpaid? 
So a first-year lawyer makes as much as the county's median income, and they feel underpaid? 
So a first-year engineer makes as much as the county's median income, and they feel underpaid?

My first year out of college, with a bachelor's degree in environmental science, I made more than the county's median income (adjusted for inflation), [/quote]

Teaching ES isn't precisely comparable to performing heart surgery. Med school and residency take over a decade or more.

I've known a few remarkable teachers, but most seem to have degrees in psychology from Towson State. No offense but that is hardly comparable.[/quote]

What's your obsession with Towson? You get rejected from there or something? Absolutely sounds like it. Stop disparaging other people's educations while hiding behind a keyboard. You have the mentality of a thirteen year old. Gross to see on a grown adult. [/quote]

DP, but I imagine “psychology degree from Towson” is just a metaphor for any degree with relatively limited earning potential from an unimpressive school. There are a few people in this thread that seem to be making willfully misleading comparisons between professions and degrees.[/quote]

By definition, most college graduates get their degrees from "unimpressive schools". If you want the teaching workforce to consist of only teachers who went to fancy-pants schools, then there will not be many teachers. To say nothing of the other PP's idea that graduates of fancy-pants schools are better teachers than teachers who graduated from Towson.

Plus, why did so many teachers graduate from Towson? Because it's been turning out teachers (white teachers, that is) since 1866. That was its original purpose. It's also interesting that, for all of the sneers I've read on DCUM about "Towson State," I don't remember ever reading any sneers about "psychology degree from Bowie State" or Morgan State or Coppin State. Though on the other hand, I also don't remember reading any sneers about Salisbury State. Just Towson.

It's also interesting to see all the sneering posts that name-check Towson, be[/quote]

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