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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Welcome to the world of the average high school teacher that has been around 
for a few years.  The California arm of the NEA has about guaranteed they 
will make that kind of money too in California!

It has nothing to do with the colleges and everything to do with the unions 
starting at the lowest levels.

It also has nothing to do with the current conversation, only your state of 
mind.  And your continual harping on it only shows your lack of ability to 
think beyond certain worn groves in your little crainium!  You get stuck in 
a think grove and that's it.  Someone needs to smack you up long side the 
head and get you to think about something new!  You repeat over and over and 
over the same old things.  We all know exactly what you are going to say 
about any topic.  Boring, boring, boring! Get a life, Bill!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Jones" <billj AT harborside.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 11:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] The GOP on government spending: Borrow 'til the 
Chinese own us!


> 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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