From: "Jeff Shultz" 

"Bill Lucy"  wrote in message
news:MPG.138d00853f7f41da9898d1{at}news.barkto.com...
> In article , si{at}wvi.com says...
>
> > > Given the proposal to elminate the state income tax for teachers in
> > California,
> > > there appears to be a market.
> > >
> > I believe he means a "competitive market" in education
- private schools
> > that compete with public schools. Probably ought to add the word secular
in
> > there somewhere.
>
> I don't think that's true. Right now, if you have a secondary school
teaching
> certificate, you can get a job almost anywhere in the country.
>
> If you *want* to teach uppper division math in Santa Barbara County, and
you
> have the highest skills, you can get a job there that pays $49,529. Santa
Ynez
> Union High School is looking for you.
>
I'm sure - my astronomy prof has a magazine/newspaper article detailing the
current shortage of physics teachers (physics is his specialty, astrology
and cosmetology came with the job).


> > I'm trying to remember the private school system that exists in
Hawaii... it
> > is excellent. The public schools suck, and when I was there they feared
they
> > were about to become crystal meth treatment centers due to high usage
among
> > students.
>
> Maybe they suck because they can't get teachers?

Hawaii is kind of a special situation - it's not like you can drive there,
and the cost of living is atrocious. I had a cousin who was a lawyer who
moved there with his family during my second year of being stationed there
- he figured that since lawyers made three times as much there, he could
pay off his student loans that much sooner. I tried to tell him otherwise,
but... a couple years after I headed off to Germany they moved back to the
Seattle area.
I figure anyone smart enough to be a decent teacher there is also smart
enough to get a job that 1. makes more money and 2. doesn't involve having
to interact with children.

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