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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I always find the people who champion the market-side economics in the public sector choose to not see why there's a teacher shortage. It's because we, as a society, do not value the job enough either through pay or through support (i.e. administrative support for teachers). I'm married to a teacher and it's pretty clear teaching would be a ton better if teachers could have administrative support, i.e. someone to handle things like scheduling, correspondence, copying, etc. Or else pay way, way more.

Nope, the solution is to throw 22 year olds with a summer camp's worth of teaching training into the classroom. And you think that's going to save education in this country. Sigh.[/quote]

Do you have a teaching degree?  My daughter was in the classroom with kids from her very first semester of college.  Every semester for four years involved some kind of practical classroom work.  Her entire senior year was an internship. The first semester of her senior year she had a mentor in the classroom with her.  The second semester, the class was all hers.  [/quote]

I assume this poster was referring to Teach for America, where a summer camp worth of training gets you thrown into some of the worst schools in the worst areas and the claim that it is going to be some grand savior of inner city schools. Actual teaching programs are not TFA.[/quote]

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