Digest Number 942

[melclaros <melclaros@yahoo.com>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Greg Johnson" 
<smotgreg at h...> wrote:

Many of our new teachers hold Master degrees, which is 
> really a one-year-quick-to-the-classroom approach where anyone who 
holds a 
> four year degree in anything (like recreation, for example), can 
take a few 
> courses and voila! 


Voila! Man, where is this that can get a Master's like that? Not 
here. Not where I asked around! Despite the fact I have a 4-year 
Liberal Arts degree, I was expected to take undergrad gen. ed. 
classes and pay grad student rate per credit for the priviledge. (Had 
to "catch up" you know, with all the gen. ed. majors!) There are some 
programs that will certify degreed professionals in certain fields 
(in this particular county we're desperate for anyone who can teach 
high level math) but they are just that, certified teachers. They do 
not get Master's Degrees right out of the box.
(Hope I got all the 'postrophes right!)
Mel
As to the rest of your post, I agree with every word. I work in the 
public school system in a state that ranks near the very, very bottom 
of the barrel in education spending (despite our "Education Governor" 
as he calls himself.)