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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]...I quickly counted ~15 out of 27 with MS or PhD
5 PhDs plus school director has PhD[/quote]

Am I the only one who wonders why a PhD would chose to teach at a charter school?  The good ones get tenure at a university or go into specialized business enterprises.  Why would a PhD of any good quality choose to teach at a brand new charter school?  With no guarantee of anything?  It's not exactly the path one chooses when pursuing such a degree.  What exactly is wrong with these faculty members?[/quote]

The reasons for wanting to teach at a charter school could be many.

Tenure track at a university is no longer what it's cracked up to be.  For one thing, more and more universities don't even put professors on tenure track and instead rely on everyone being adjunct faculty without all the benefits of traditional tenured professorships.  Then, there's the mindless push to constantly have their faculty publishing and researching, which might not be a good fit for everyone.  The list could go on and on.

Why is it automatically that there's "something wrong" with a Ph.D. who doesn't conform to your narrow preconceived worldview of what a Ph.D. should be?[/quote]

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