Education system- how messed up can you get?
I was talking to my father - in - law on the way home today about this country's education system (in the USA).
Now, to give you his background, he's from Aegentina. retired surgeon (one of the world's best, and I'm not just saying that) of about 45-50 yyears in the medical field.
Is teaching a college course in a local community college, 'Spanish for the Medical field', teaching medical professionals how to speak Spanish to their patients.
He went on an interview at Oakhurst, NJ Elementary school to teach Spanish. Now, this school is a public school, in a middle class (lower-middle to middle-middle).
They were very impressed with his background. They practicly offered him a job. Guess what the pay was?
$35 a day!!!! (that he works, not paid for vacation & days off).
Thats a whopping $6,300 a year (even if he got paid for all the days, that would only be $12,600 a year)...
After 6 months, he'd get a raise to $50 a day (a little less than $24,000 a year).
Now, he could easily go to a large corperation as a translator and make double to triple the pay easily!
One of this country's bigges problem is education. We all know that. The government swears each election that "I will put more money towards education"! Bull!
OK, so the governments won't spend the money to allow schools to pay good teachers what they deserve (and I think thats a lot). Yet they're complaining how bad the education system is since there are no good teachers.
Well, if a student gets the crudentials to be a teacher, then is offered a whopping $25,000 / year (yes,I went high) as a teacher, but then XYZ corp will offer them $35,000/year as a corperate trainer. I'd say at least 9 out of 10 of them would pass on the school.
And I haven't even started on how messed up and one-sided the teachings in this country are...
Any thoughts?
How is it in other countries for our international members?