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Comment Re:How do you develop good teachers? (Score 1) 446

Anonymous peer reviews sound like a great idea, so many want our kids to take standardize testing and fire the teacher that has the worst kids. My wife who teaches second grade is considered a "Highly Qualified Teacher" by the state of Arizona. She is given the worst readers at her school. They are split up between 3 categories "above grade level", "at grade level" and "below grade level". It is the goal to get them to grade level or greatly improve there skills by working with the child's skill set depending on their ability. Unfortunately her efforts are not always successful. If she was paired up with the exceeding or average students she would look better on paper but currently there is limited success with the lowest of the low. Still she measures her success one child at a time, testing could not measure this unless of course that child advances to one of the other two groups. My wife teaches because we can afford it. 33,000 per year with a masters degree and as a reading specialist isn't much, it hurt worse this year when she had to take a 6% cut in pay since the state has cut the education budget. Oh and the summers off, that would be about 9 weeks, 2 of which are spent,,,,, well going to school to be a better teacher.

Comment Re:you know (Score 1) 1322

Try Arizona, you will make about 35,000 per year with a masters degree for the first five years. (minus the 10% cut they will get next September due to budget shortfalls with Arizona.) Summer jobs are few and far between, nobody wants to hire a person for 2 and half months.

McDonald's does pay about $30,000 to be a manager for less hour's, teachers don't work a 7 hour day if they want to succeed.

When my wife said she was going to quit being an Oracle DBA and announced she was going to start teaching, I thought she was a nut. She make's a fraction of the pay, works nights & weekends and gets zero respect from parents.

When you teach, your success is measured with "ohhs and ahhs" from the kids, not the pay.

 

Comment Re:Dave is a great guy (Score 2, Informative) 82

I Worked for Dave and crew at the last Superbowl in Phoenix. I was the wireless vendor that the Superbowl hired for the outdoor wireless. Everything that Controlio says is true. He is a great guy, they have there act together and he is a good man to work for. He led the entire site from weeks before to the week after. Three weeks later I received a hand written thank you card and a gift from Dave. In a world of thankless days, I have kept the thank you note on my desk from Dave Port, He seems to have this game plan down.
I guarantee he did not watch any of the game tonight, he was running the show. Next week he will sleep!!

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