Good teachers want to teach in good schools

It seems like lazy teachers would want to teach in good schools.

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In elite High Schools teaching is more difficult if you're not highly qualified because there will be students in your class who know more about your subject than you do.

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Like Darth in History class?

Right. But that doesn't mean the lazy teachers wouldn't want to work there. Easier job and probably better pay.

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In Pennsylvania, for instance, more than 20 percent of teachers are unlicensed in the schools with the largest concentration of minority students.

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Or consider Louisiana: Nearly 20 percent of classes in the most impoverished schools are taught by teachers who don’t meet the federal definition of “highly qualified” — which generally means they lack a bachelor’s degree, are unlicensed or don’t have a strong academic background in the subject they’re teaching.

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This is insane.

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We had a couple of teachers who knew less about the subject than we did. History and Sociology. A first year lady and a PE coach. We gave them a pretty hard time.

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The first year person, meh. The other one isn't even a teacher.

The obvious solution is to bus kids from affluent areas to the poorer schools...

Sarcasm meter now off.

A qualified/good teacher can pick where they want to teach. The only way to improve this situation is to have a substantial pay difference in lower performing schools. And I don't mean 5 to 10% (or 4 to 5,000).

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Or consider Louisiana: Nearly 20 percent of classes in the most impoverished schools are taught by teachers who don’t meet the federal definition of “highly qualified” — which generally means they lack a bachelor’s degree, are unlicensed or don’t have a strong academic background in the subject they’re teaching. This is insane.

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La. has two problems regarding unqualified teachers:

1. Hard to fill subjects... math, science, special ed. There just aren't enough warm bodies out there to fill the positions. Math and Science are a problem because you can make more money in the private sector. Special Ed is a problem due to burnout.

2. Rural schools. We think of impoverished schools as inner city. Not in La. We have rural schools with poor kids and they don't have enough numbers for teachers to stay within their specialty. IE, if Dry Prong HS has 100 kids and you're a history teacher you're not gonna have 5 classes of history to teach. So, they give you a class in math which you are totally unqualified to teach.

If you're going to be in a govt union shouldn't you just go where you're told and let the union decide where you would best be used. Seems like the state workers union way.

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In elite High Schools teaching is more difficult if you're not highly qualified because there will be students in your class who know more about your subject than you do.

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The parents would be riding their arse as much as the students in the better schools.

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What type of trash school did you go to or what type of trash family do you come from that allowed this to happen.

If you go to a good school and the school doesn't instill respect of its teachers or your parents didn't teach you to respect your teachers then you are a pretty clear example of what's wrong with education. It's not the teachers fault you are weak.

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You're a bit naive. In those days, many teachers in Southern schools were unqualified to be in a classroom. It really went to shite when desegregation came about.