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I am frankly offended as a soon-to-be teacher.

Teachers are not greedy for their 30 grand a year. Look at the salary schedules. Increases are VERY slow.

At least in KS, you start at about 30 and are lucky to get 55....maybe if at a top school you can get 60 when you retire after 30 years of teaching. And how do you get that extra pay......not because you are a good teacher.

You get the big increases because you have more education.

The system is based upon paying money to get more salary.

Good teachers work very hard, even in the summer, to make sure they have the best program they can possibly have.

And, it is extremely hard to become a teacher, often taking 5 years.

I got through it in about 4.5 years, but I will only have one area I can teach. You have to go BACK to school for every additional area you want to teach, and you can't simply go back and get a few classes...you have to do a full major in that new area to add other endorsements, and the program has to be an "approved program" by that state, further limiting ways to add other areas to teach.

I am wanting to add English, but I don't know how I will do it since there are no online programs or anything for that area.

I would not work in a school that I thought was hurting kids, and I do not know anybody else who would.