Critique Blog

Catalina, my collegue recently wrote a blog explaining Teachers salarys needing to be raised. (http://springgov3.blogspot.com/2009/05/teachers-need-urgent-salary-raise.html)
Catalina raised many good points. For one the amount of education neccessary to become a teacher, a BA bachelors. Also she mentions that these teachers are not only educator but sometimes mentors to these kids, which may I remind you is Americas future. Catalina says these teachers are not babysitters simply educators and need to be paid accordingly. I might disagree I think in a way a lot of them ARE babysitters and make no mistake thats no fault of their own, these teachers sometimes are resorting to babysitting because the lack of parenting skills at home, and gives the teachers much more to handle. Catalina explains the avg salary for teachers in Texas is 45k/year while in CA it's 65k/yr. My argument would be the reason for that is simply the cost of living in CA is much higher.

Either way I agree with Catalina these teachers need to be paid for the tiem and effort they put in. Teachers spend many hours after school tutoring kids, wanting them to succeed for the sake of none other than the child. I think the starting salary with should be around 50K/yr But with incentives according to their overall performances on some sort of regulated test i.e. TAKS/TAAS whatever they are calling it these days.