Sunday, March 1, 2009

Could these be the kinds of schools that rabid ESPLOST opponents would prefer that we some day have in Camden County?

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/02/28/kaye.broken.schools.cnn
Posted by Jay Moreno at 9:37 PM

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I don't think people are complaining about the ESPLOST because of the quality of schools as much as they are complaining about the excessive spending of the board of education.

You are a very logical person, how can you not see the difference. 1 million for landscaping! Come on Jay. 110K a year salary because they went online and got a degree.

March 2, 2009 at 9:09 AM
Jay Moreno said...

How do you know that it is excessive?

I'll grant you that some of the crap like the obsession with the football program is over the top, but that is actually a reflection of the will of the yahoos who live and breathe high school football in this county - academics be damned.

You make it sound as if people simply continue the same duties they had with a bachelors degree - teaching 3 classes per day (or one class all day long in the case of elementary schools) and draw progressively more pay for the smae exact duiters as they obtain masters and PhDs. To some extnet, that is true at the masters level, but rarely at the PhD level. PhD's are usually administrators (principals / assistant principals,) or lead teachers for a particular discipline within a given school, or school psychologists, or heads of the system's or the individuals schools' special education departments. You would not beleive the complexity of the federal rules and regs regarding the education of special ed students.
On some rare occassions where you see a PhD teaching regular classes, they have usually been at a much higher level of responsibility, but chose to revert back to teaching. The argument that perhaps they should revert back to lesser pay for lesser responsibilities perhaps has some merit.

Many of these people are actually executives managing multi-million dollar budgets both at the board level and at the individual school levels. Others are mid-level managers with gobs and gobs fo responsibilites.

If you folks are thinking that the public education environment is anything like it was back when the only two professions open to women were teaching and nursing and there were no No Child Left Behind regs, y'all are sadly mistaken.

As to getting degrees on line - how else would you have them do it and still be able to show up at school every day. How many major universities do we have with in- state tuition rates within an hour's drive of Camden County? Should all teachers who wish to continue to live and teach and be professional educators in Camden County be doomed to never progress beyond a bachelor's degree and never advance their careers?

How about you folks? Ever made in efforts to advance your careers? Should you be denounced or applauded for it?

March 2, 2009 at 1:17 PM

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