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<blockquote data-quote="Kathy813" data-source="post: 58982" data-attributes="member: 1967"><p>They do recruit from up north. They also are bringing in teachers from overseas. There is a teaching shortage that is getting worse every year. </p><p></p><p>As far as your child having an untrained/uncertified teacher, you probably wouldn't even know. In Georgia's public schools, as long as a teacher has a provisional certificate, they are considered certified and it is certainly not made public knowledge that they are working on full certification. </p><p></p><p>How many times have you asked to see your child's teacher's college diploma or even asked what their major was in college? Another little known fact is that a certified teacher can teach out of field as long as it is less than half of their teaching load. So as long as I taught 3 math classes, I could be assigned to teach 2 chemistry classes (which would be a major disaster since I hated chemistry in high school and avoided it altogether in college). I don't know if this is true in other places, though.</p><p></p><p>This may not be politically correct for me to say but as far as encouraging your daughter to teach, I wouldn't do it. Both of my girls have expressed interest in teaching and I have advised them both to think long and hard about that career choice.</p><p></p><p>Why? As much as I love to teach, if I was just starting out, I wouldn't do it again. The teaching profession has changed so much since I started 27 years ago. Teachers get so little respect nowadays (just read this board) and everyone's child is perfect and can do no wrong. Inclusion classes have added a new challenge and parents constantly threaten lawsuits. I had a friend get an Asperger's child whose mom was notorious at threatening to sue (and had sued the school district three times and lost all three times). My friend was so scared that she joined a professional organization in order to get insurance coverage to protect her against any possible lawsuits. How crazy is that? And to top it off, she had only been given a half day inservice on Asperger's before she taught the child in question.</p><p></p><p>You really have gotten me going, haven't you? :rofl:</p><p></p><p>~Kathy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathy813, post: 58982, member: 1967"] They do recruit from up north. They also are bringing in teachers from overseas. There is a teaching shortage that is getting worse every year. As far as your child having an untrained/uncertified teacher, you probably wouldn't even know. In Georgia's public schools, as long as a teacher has a provisional certificate, they are considered certified and it is certainly not made public knowledge that they are working on full certification. How many times have you asked to see your child's teacher's college diploma or even asked what their major was in college? Another little known fact is that a certified teacher can teach out of field as long as it is less than half of their teaching load. So as long as I taught 3 math classes, I could be assigned to teach 2 chemistry classes (which would be a major disaster since I hated chemistry in high school and avoided it altogether in college). I don't know if this is true in other places, though. This may not be politically correct for me to say but as far as encouraging your daughter to teach, I wouldn't do it. Both of my girls have expressed interest in teaching and I have advised them both to think long and hard about that career choice. Why? As much as I love to teach, if I was just starting out, I wouldn't do it again. The teaching profession has changed so much since I started 27 years ago. Teachers get so little respect nowadays (just read this board) and everyone's child is perfect and can do no wrong. Inclusion classes have added a new challenge and parents constantly threaten lawsuits. I had a friend get an Asperger's child whose mom was notorious at threatening to sue (and had sued the school district three times and lost all three times). My friend was so scared that she joined a professional organization in order to get insurance coverage to protect her against any possible lawsuits. How crazy is that? And to top it off, she had only been given a half day inservice on Asperger's before she taught the child in question. You really have gotten me going, haven't you? [img]:rofl:[/img] ~Kathy [/QUOTE]
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