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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know why anyone is suggesting people become teachers. MCPS is going to get hit hard by the loss of federal funding and lower tax dollars. It's going to get ugly. And I suspect a lot of people are going to leave the area so lower enrollment.[/quote]

only 3.4% of MCPS budget comes from federal government.

A job is a job.  A job with some sort of mission (like teaching) is something that is probably attractive to fed employees who have already accepted lower salaries for a mission.[/quote]

You don't get it. Tax revenues for Montgomery County are going to crater. Just watch the unemployment numbers in a couple of months. Then the housing market will crash and the foreclosures will start. People will leave the area. MCPS will lay off the last people the hired first. I would not recommend anybody invest time and resources to get change careers and get certified as a teacher on the expectation of being employed in this area.[/quote]

yiiiiikes.  Look, I don't think that anything that's happening is good, but people are going to be unemployed, and they need to find jobs even in the near term.  School districts often have programs that enable people with BAs to do on-the-job training, and there is a teacher shortage.[/quote]

You're offering bad advice. Education funding is reliant on the local economy. Telling people to invest money, time and energy to become teachers only to get laid off shortly afterwards is dumb. If someone thinks teaching would be a good fit for them in the longer term sure, maybe if they can't stay in the area they could find a teaching job somewhere else. But people could change to any number of careers somewhere else.[/quote]

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