>From: "Tom Scales" <tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>The standard substitute rate in my school district is $50.05 for a 7 1/2
>day, or $6.67 an hour.
That's below the Oregon minimum wage, where we have the nation's highest hunger
level. :-(
But hey, you need FIVE YEARS of college to be a certified teacher in Oregon.
My friend "only" has a college degree, so she cannot legally teach. Instead,
she is making Oregon minimum wage ($6.80, I think) thanks to Mr. Bush's "No
Child Left Behind Act" (a.k.a. "Title One"). She "assists" (since she cannot
legally teach) teachers (who are not present) with problem children, teaching
them to read for 15 hours a week maximum. Strange, but under Oregon law, if she
were working just 16 hours a week, she would qualify to PURCHASE teacher's
health insurance. So she remains uninsured.
I think this should really be called the "Break the Backs of Teachers Unions By
Replacing Them With Minimum Wage (No Benefits) College Graduates Who Are
Desperate For Work Act".
But of course, all of us on this list are certainly in the top 10f wage earners
who got 950f Bush's tax breaks, so we don't really care.
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