Posted on 08/20/2007 4:50:30 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
My daughter just graduated from Texas A&M with a 3.9 GPA and a triple majaor in Chemistry, Biochemistry and Genetics, a 38 on the MCAT and missed one question on the GRE.
She has not decided what she wants to do for a PhD (or MD). Her solution was to enroll in a summer based MEd degree that has her teach during the school year. She will be teaching 9th grade science in the Cy-Fair school district next year. The teacher’s salary actually looked good compared to the stipend that most grad schools would pay.
My wife and I were checking out a pre-school for our daughter near Seattle. There was not a single native English speaker in the entire school: teacher, administrator, or student. All the teachers were from either India or the Philippines. 99% of the students were Indian, one was Asian, and one was eastern European. (This is near Microsoft, so the kids are mostly children of MS employees.)
I have nothing against Indians or Filipinos, but it just doesn’t seem good having foreigners teach my daughter read, writing, and pronouncing English. Am I being overcautious?
Fair question.
My advice is go with the school.
They are for more likely to have a conservative viewpoint on eduction than their native equivalent teachers.
“The teacher’s salary actually looked good compared to the stipend that
most grad schools would pay.”
My naive advice:
don’t go the PhD route in science unless money means nothing to you
AND
you don’t mind the great likelihood of “topping-out” as the American that
is the manager of lab (mostly full of foreign nationasls) for a professor.
We’ve been flooded with science grad students since the fall of The Berlin
Wall and it’s gotten harder and harder for US students to have a good
shot at tenured positions.
What part of seattle? shoreline has some excellent schools....but budget problems...I think they are selling a school and park to get back in line
” there are plenty of qualified Americans with Math & Science degrees”
As one of those qualified Americans, let me say right off that you would never get me to take a job that would pay about 60% less than what I currently get, have weaker benefits (the teacher pension plan is a complete joke), and have those people I “served” act like spoiled brats....
No thanks.... (but thank you to those who do take this thankless job)
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