Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Cash-for-clunkers rush has slackened.

http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE57B09220090812
Posted by Jay Moreno at 7:44 AM

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Jay,

Are you teaching this year? You don't seem to be updating the blog as often since school started.

August 12, 2009 at 3:43 PM
Jay Moreno said...

No. Did you miss the news? The local school board came up about $8
million short in state funding for this year. At the end of the last school year,they convinced about 18 teachers to take early retirement, then laid off four more. The game plan was to fill any vacancies first with those four if absolutely necessary, but they hoped to do no new hires this year whatsoever. To that end, they increased the max class size from 28 to 30. I did not even apply this year.

What's more, I thought the college was pulling my leg when they said it would take them several weeks after program completion to get my application and supporting documentation off to the state then another two months or more to actually issue the license, but they were not. The state will have had the final data two months in a few days. They tell you not to call until at least two months.

There's always next year.

As soon as I get licensed, I'll probably start subbing this year. Yes, I know I could do it now, but the pay rate jumps from $50.00 per day to $80.00 per day with licensure.

August 12, 2009 at 4:10 PM
Anonymous said...

Will you be called to sub? There is NO money for subs in the elementary schools. I don't know about the middle schools and high school.

August 13, 2009 at 9:44 AM
Jay Moreno said...

That's a good question. I know that the school system has promised the 4 laid off teachers that if they are available, they will be the first called to substitute. Come to think of it, wihtt the mpney being so tight,they might very well call out the non-certified subs at $50.00 per day before they would call me in at $80.00 per day.

Did you know that anyone with a high school diploma or GED and a clean background check can, after a day of training, be a sub? The sad fact is that most teachers really do not expect that their clasees will actually learn anything during the days they are out and a sub is in. They usually just leave busy work for the sub to monitor. The biggest things the subs typically do is take the role and try to maintain order - as if that isn't a real job in and of itself!

August 13, 2009 at 11:26 AM

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