[SampleMan]

I'm willing to bet that there is zero empirical evidence that attaining a Master's degree has any effect at all on quality of teaching.

The education industry bases pay on degree wickets, not actual performance.

[wiggen]

The funny thing is equating starting salary (and second year is still the beginning of a career)with anything. I know i had to prove myself and as is the case in the real world prove myself over and over again. Even today in my upper 50’s i have to produce. I have to show my worth. The fantasy world of unions believing they’re owed something for having gone to school.

[tfecw]

I'm willing to bet that there is zero empirical evidence that attaining a Master's degree has any effect at all on quality of teaching.

I think you're wrong. I'd love to teach, but I've been busy working in a field where experience is more valued more than degrees.

It seems like keeping people with real world, hands on, practical knowledge out of the classroom most certainly has an affect on teaching.

My only guess for why they want you in college longer is there's a greater chance for the liberal brainwashing to sink in.

[Why So Serious]

You are sooo right. If a teacher is teaching second grade math it would not matter to me if she had an associates degree, BS, Masters, or PhD. The pay for teaching second grade math should be a set level. If I work on an assembly line at the Ford plant I do not get more based on my level of education, the same is true if I work for Dept of Streets and Sanitation.