-=> Quoting Ruth Leblanc to Dal Jencso <=-
 RL> I can't start at a lower position on the salary ladder. This is the
 RL> lowest for me as a category 4 teacher. Teachers are slotted into 4
 RL> categories here which are decided by QECO - that is the committee that
 RL> makes these decisions. As a teacher with a 4 year Honour B.A. and a
 RL> B.Ed I automatically go into category 3 but since I have an additional
 RL> four years of college and Special Education qualifications I got bumped
 RL> up into category 4. It is not at all uncommon for many graduates here
 RL> to be category 4 teachers. I have 0.1 years of experience which counts
 RL> for nothing and puts me at the bottom of the ladder in my category. I
 RL> couldn't be placed any lower - it would be against the law.
But all that extra education may work against you, in that boards will
shop around for less qualified teachers who'll do the same job for less
salary (well maybe not as _good_ a job, but boards don't care about
that). It's really the same sort of thing Dal is talking about (haggling
with teachers over how many years experience they'll be paid for), but
it's done more discreetly; a teacher almost never finds out exactly why
he or she wasn't selected for a position, or at least not the real reason.
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