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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I taught for three years. Couldn't hack it. Now I have a desk job and make over $100K.

Now that charter schools are everywhere, teachers are seeing reduced benefits - no more pensions, no more substitutes - plus longer hours.

Teachers need to be paid more and respected more, especially excellent teachers. Teacher programs should be competitive and there should be apprenticeship programs set up in which excellent teachers team teach with new graduates.

If you sign up to teach for 10 years, perhaps your loans should be forgiven and you receive a substantial bonus ($50K?).

I could go on. [/quote]

The federal government does have a program like this where teachers work in low-income schools for a certain number of years and then have their student loans forgiven. I forget what the program is called at the moment, but I read and article it and what struck me from that article was that out of all the educators who applied to the program and met the qualifications, 97% were denied and given no explanation. [/quote]

Again, that was explicitly Betsy DeVos's choice. She is gone now. Miguel Cardona is for debt forgiveness, so this program will be revived.[/quote]

I was a teacher who SHOULD have had the loan forgiveness but did not because of a technicality and this was before DeVos. It was 2006-2012. There are/were lots of fiddly rules with the program (years have to be continuous, you can't switch schools- even low income to low income, etc ). Also, I should have gotten ~17K in loan forgiveness (which is only available to high school math and science teachers or special ed). If you do any other subject or k-8  it's only 5k. This isn't really enough to make it worth it. [/quote]

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