[Beagle8U]

Public school teachers are a good example. They make 70-80K a year for having a masters degree in 1st grade milk-n-cookies, and it's only a part-time job.

OK, none of the K-12 public school teachers are teaching anything tougher than 12th grade classes.

Shouldn't even a really smart high school graduate be able to teach others the same thing? An associate degree in education should be the max required, especially for those teaching grade school.

Public sector education groups are screwing over taxpayers with trumped up education standards.

[JCBreckenridge]

“Shouldn’t even a really smart high school graduate be able to teach others the same thing? An associate degree in education should be the max required, especially for those teaching grade school.”

Disagree. Teaching should require a degree in the subject you plan to teach. As it is you have Math teachers who never took grade 12 math.

But that should be all that is required.

[Osage Orange]

They make 70-80K a year for having a masters degree in 1st grade milk-n-cookies, and it's only a part-time job.

While....I'm very far, far away from being a public ed. defender....I don't think the median avg. salary for MA degree'd teachers is 70-80k....

Maybe I'm wrong..as I don't track them...so let's just be accurate in our numbers.