Local teachers discourage teaching careers

[n2doc]

A math program at the U of A got canceled this year after teachers refused to recommend students to pursue careers in education.

"I don't want to impoverish people, by having them become a math teacher, or any teacher," said University High School teacher, DeAnna McDonald.

The University of Arizona Center for Recruitment and Retention of Mathematics Teachers was set to host the workshop for high school seniors. Last year, nearly 60 students were referred to the program by their teachers. This year, the center sent out notices to more than 400 educators in Pima County. They did not receive recommendations from a single teacher.

DeAnna McDonald has been an educator for more than 30 years. She teaches statistics at UHS, but can't encourage her students to do the same.

When the U of A asked her to recommend students to the teaching workshop, she didn't respond.

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"How do you say to a young person in high school, 'I want you to take on college, and I want you to perhaps go into debt, because college is expensive. And then I want you to get out, and I want your yearly salary to be so bad, so low that you're not gonna be able to afford to live."'

[elmac]

1. On average, NBA players make $5.15 million, MLB players make $3.2 million, NHL players make $2.4 mil

Average Salary for All K-12 Teachers $46,931

I guess our kids futures aren't as important as sports.

[Pakhet]

2. They never have been. n/t

[Baobab]

7. GERMANY

educates young people for free, even Americans, and they teach in English

THEY care about the future of humanity.

[Loudestlib]

3. Just think, if those organizations paid taxes we could afford to pay the teachers.

[Dustlawyer]

4. In my town it's about $34,000 I think.

Last week on the same day a math teacher started slapping a kid in the head and ridiculing him and another teacher in the same district body slammed a kid into the lockers send him to the ER with a bruised sternum.

I guess they are a little frustrated too!

[Smarmie Doofus]

6. You get what you pay for.

We came to a consensus.... as a society.... during the Bush/Obama era, that we were going to let public ed be driven by 'market forces'.

i.e. Cheap-labor capitalism: tenure, unions, decent pay, teachers who know what they're doing : all OUT.

Data, tech, all variety of gimmicky $$-making "innovations", and low-cost labor: IN.

Result:

>>>Last week on the same day a math teacher started slapping a kid in the head and ridiculing him and another teacher in the same district body slammed a kid into the lockers send him to the ER with a bruised sternum. >>>

But let's not pretend that we haven't produced the circumstances that we *deliberately* set out to produce.

This IS what we wanted.

[Baobab]

8. Fact Check=Partly Accurate

Except "we" came to no consensus, what happened was this:

http://www.eua.be/Libraries/higher-education/GATS_en.pdf

And you left out the Clintons

http://www.eua.be/activities-services/news/newsitem/15-02-05/EUA_Council_statement_on_TTIP_and_TISA.aspx
http://www.eua.be/Libraries/publication/EUA_Statement_TTIP.pdf

http://www.ei-ie.org/en/news/news_details/2659

https://www.google.co.in/#q=GATS+WTO+education

[Festivito]

5. Sad. How does Norway collect enough to pay teachers more than doctors?

I think that was Norway. Maybe it was Finland. Doesn't matter. How do they fund that.