I chose the article titled "The Disposable Teacher" by Emily Alpert. The article discusses how with the recent increase in California school budget cuts schools in San Diego are beginning to lay off temporary teachers - teachers that are only hired for one year in the school district. Alpert states that the problem is not that the teachers are temporary but that it is not made clear that they only have one year to teach. It is not up to the school itself which teachers come back the next year but up to the school district. The author refers to a school teacher at Torrey Pines High School who "was hired as a temp for four years and then released abruptly with no hearing. A court upheld his termination...because the teacher was working on an emergency basis as a special education teacher" It is cases like this that make the field of teaching a dangerous one to enter at the moment.
http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/articles/2009/06/15/education/815temp061409.txt
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I have a friend who is a history teacher, fully credentialed, with a Master's Degree, and he has had the hardest time finding a job. When he finally did, although he fulfilled his mission outstandingly he found out 2 weeks before the end of the school year that he wouldn't be coming back in the fall.
ReplyDeleteI have contemplated becoming a French teacher, since I already have a BA, but I cannot justify the cost of further schooling considering the lack of job security even in a profession that used to be a golden path.
In my home country, teachers are employees of the state. It is very competitive and extrememly difficlut to obtain a credential, therefore eachers are usually great and highly qualified.. and tenured. Everyone wants to be a teacher there, hence the level of quality of those who do become one.