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  • From: Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] The GOP on government spending: Borrow 'til the Chinese own us!
  • Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:18:38 -0700

Sorry, I was a little hasty there.

The question is whether it's appropriate to insist that only highly-paid masters' degree holders be allowed to teach, as the teachers' "union" has swung it. Given that it really is college material, then that would be fine. I'd like to see calculus being taught only by people with advanced degrees. But why are people earning $60K to teach arithmetic? I'll bet I could find a dedicated arithmetic teacher for my own kids for a lot less. Why must the government waste money, just so that competent people can be locked out of a job?

Sorry, I can't parse the second sentence at all. Do you mean BA granting institutions do have 2/3 of their units in actual college credit courses? Why, of course: much more, even. You would take a difficult upper-division course, and spend money on it, if it didn't contribute to your earning the degree? Colleges are afraid to offer courses that might not be too popular, because of costs, and non-credit would certainly make them unpopular. (Don't confuse non-credit courses with elective courses; an elective course can provide BA units without being specifically required for a particular degree.)

Lynda wrote:

Bill, CC's are for AA/AS degrees, they aren't meant to have classes that
contribute to a BA degree. Colleges that do have BA degrees don't have 2/3
of their classes not contibuting to BA degrees. Get your head out of a
space that never sees daylight.








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