[Cincinatus' Wife]

In 2000, under the administration of Gov. Roy Barnes, Georgia's teacher pay jumped to 19th in the nation. Teachers averaged $41,122, just $700 below the national average. .....……..National test scores have not correlated with rising pay. Despite ranking 19th in teacher pay, Georgia is 50th in SAT scores.

A person with a degee in education is worthless to students.

"There was a time when educators' salaries were pitiful," Callahan said.

And there was a time when high school graduates were educated.

[eleni121]

"If there is any way to make some extra money, volunteer to do it," said Henry, who teaches gifted elementary students. "You have just got to keep looking at the pay schedule. [The top] should be your goal."

Actually student performance outcomes mean nothing to Judy Henry and mean nothing to the Boards that run the school systems. And that is thanks to the tenure system that allows the incompetents to be paid as much as the better teachers.

[Tribune7]

This is akin to the situation in suburban Philly.

[Reeses]

Janet Bass, spokeswoman for the Washington-based American Federation of Teachers. "If a teacher has a number of years of experience, a master's degree or a Ph.D., that teacher should be well paid. Just like in any profession, the more credentials you have, the more you are worth to the company, and in this case the more you are worth to the student."

This is union talk. A Ph.D. in education has become almost a ceremonial degree, its primary purpose to make more government money. Education students are often the bottom of the academic barrel and have one goal in life: to get a government job.