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No way in H***! I worked for a manager in PA, who lasted less than a year (he lied to get his job and was a total waste product -- Columbia U grad) who was married to a teacher.

For 82K a year (1995 bucks) we had a woman who was a Special Ed teacher (this is the bottom of the bottom of the college graduates) that finagled her way into teaching 6th grade math. For 1 1/2 years she would bring her students questions home to her husband and get back the next day with the answer. I can't believe this moron told me this more than once! Of course, he was a lib.

I know of a similar situation. Myself, I am having a hard time finding a teaching job, with only a B.A. and an M.A. It seems in Kansas you are unqualified to teach History unless you go throught their certification program. Meanwhile, I personally am acquainted with a young woman who has been hospitalized twice for suicide attempts, had 2 DUI's, (one removed through a diversion program) and numerous drinking, boyfriend, freakout problems. She is , of course, a certified teacher (5th grade) in the great state of Kansas, and has had no trouble finding jobs. I am starting a PhD program next fall, and hopefully then I will be able to teach in Kansas without the certification my "talented" acquaintence has.