[etni] [FWD: Re: Teaching Salaries in Scars' dale, Good Passage for Module F, 2006]
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Subject: Re: Teaching Salaries in Scars' dale, Good Passage for Module
F, 2006
From: Barry Silverberg and family <barisil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Teaching Salaries in Scarsdale,
After eating my heart out and several other organs which
have practically withered away this year, i started preparing
the questions for this article.
1 With a six figure salary , a teacher is able to get out of
__________________
and get into ______________. 16 points.
2 The word 'prowess' as used in this article means (8 points)
a) n: a female prow b) an educational degree
c) n: a bodily organ d) adj: the most prow
3 What is ironic about the teacher who would be 'immediately
discounted?' 4 points.
It's unbelievable that
____________________________________.
Maybe you would like to try your hand:
> From: Margie Cohen <margiec@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi ETNIers-
>
> Well, eat your heart out--we can only wish to
> have the situation that teachers in Scarsdale have!
> (RE: the paragraph about contacts being based on
> longevity of teaching careers in the second half of the article)
>
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>
> 6-Figure Salaries? To Many Teachers, a Matter of Course
> The New York Times - June 5, 2005
>
> THE hiring of a public school teacher in Scarsdale, one of the most
> sought-after districts in the nation, begins with a flood of
> applications and can take months.
>
> A careful screening of credentials winnows 80 or 90 applications to
> about 15, who then get probing telephone calls from the department
> chief. A half-dozen are invited for interviews. Two or three of those
> are asked to demonstrate their teaching prowess in the classroom before
> the lucky survivor is offered a job.
>
> "This has to be someone who has an interest in the larger issues of
> teaching, with an inquisitive mind, a person of tolerance and
> openness," said Christopher Douglass, the English department chairman
> at Scarsdale High School, emphasizing that he "immediately discounts"
> any applicant who mentions an interest in a large salary.
>
> But this noble sensibility ignores a crucial fact about the teaching
> profession in Westchester County: Teacher pay levels in Scarsdale, and
> several other districts in the county, are now high enough to
> constitute an entry ticket to upper-middle-class income and status. In
> Scarsdale, 166 teachers - nearly half - have base salaries exceeding
> $100,000; for more than a dozen, base pay tops $120,000.
>
> (To read the article, go to - www.etni.org/news/riseofsixfigure.htm )
>
> To say hi to Barry, press the reply button, especially you, Barbara!
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