tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133521035538248322.post8315828961463601126..comments2023-12-24T05:39:44.753-06:00Comments on Mike Klonsky's Blog: More from the 'bottom of the barrel'Mike Klonskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02017021676773731024noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133521035538248322.post-81575072845720524742014-01-21T11:22:49.565-06:002014-01-21T11:22:49.565-06:00Those who can, teach. Those who can't write la...Those who can, teach. Those who can't write laws about teaching.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133521035538248322.post-88185325032240566442014-01-21T11:01:18.420-06:002014-01-21T11:01:18.420-06:00Many of those going to college have limited resour...Many of those going to college have limited resources. Their families have just enough to not get any financial aid, but are struggling to pay their bills. It ends up where the student works a night job while going to school. They are tired, they have less time to work on assignments, less time to study, little or no money to pay for a tutor to help them on their weakest area. Yet these kids make it through, not because of any financial gain in teaching, but because they WANT to teach. They often end up teaching in low income schools because of student loan forgiveness, and also many of them came from areas nearby and have family there. After they have been there a few years, they can not go elsewhere to teach without losing a lot of their pay by starting at or near the bottom of the pay scale again. So they end up as a career teacher in the low income, high needs school.<br />Comparing US teachers to teachers in other countries is a false comparison. Teaching in other countries is treated as a respected, highly skilled and highly compensated profession. Here, the teachers are disrespected from the top on down. Duncan is a good example of that in this article. The Secretary of Education implying "US teachers are from the bottom of the barrel". Those were not the exact words, but we all get his message loud and clear.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com