Some have argued the presence of teachers on OnlyFans underscores the financial pressures those in education face, with the average school teacher making $66,745 a year and 40% of all education professionals earning less than $25,000 every year.
The high school teachers – even the elementary ones – do pretty well. $66 k is only just a little under median US household income. Teachers have long been hired out of the lower drawers of the intellectual chest.
Getting into college is just the beginning. Your GPA will fall under scrutiny when you are ready to declare yourself as an education major. Education programs generally require a minimum GPA of 2.75. This can be lower or higher at your school, so ask your adviser for the minimum GPA requirement. In 2020, Columbia University Teacher College, required a minimum GPA of 3.0, as well as two letters of recommendation before they would accept an application
A GPA of 2.75 is not a major intellectual achievement at college. Nor, to be honest, is a 3.0.
So for those who do become school teachers the pay is really pretty good – and add vast pensions and health insurance etc on top, the short working year and so on. It’s really not a bad screw.
But of course there’s then that 40% of “educators” on less than $25k. They, weirdly, are the academically brighter but not bright enough. Those who didn’t do the teacher training classes. But instead did the Masters, even the PhD. But then didn’t get to become professors with tenure. Instead they’re floating around those hallowed college halls as adjuncts. Really, the only place where the vast mess of graduate overproduction can find any sort of work. Who else would hire a PhD in grievance studies? And even the colleges won’t hire as many as the colleges produce.
Which does lead to an interesting conclusion. The best thing America could do would be to close down 85% of their higher degree programs.
Go on, prove me wrong.
’Who wles would hire a PhD in grievance studies?’
The public sector was once the only one who would, but clearly, some of the decisions being taken by private companies these days….
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School teachers, at least here in OZ, are not underpaid. They have some of the higher graduate salaries in the country. The problem they have is that the salary growth flattens out earlier than other professions, which is a reflection of their relative market value I’d have thought.
Teaching degrees are also among the easiest to get into, with the lowest requirement for academic achievement.
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The best thing America could do would be to close down 85% of their higher degree programs.
Indeed. And so should we.
85% plus Harvard.
I tried to find a way to compare GPAs to UK marks, but the most prominant comment I find is “There is no standardized system of grading in the United States”, and also most commentaries refer to *university* courses, not the school courses you need to do *before* you get to university/teacher training college.
The closest I can find is a reference to the quoted 2.75 being a lower Third. So, translating that to schools, that’s a School Leaving Certificate. Or, essentially, a certificate of being alive while at school.
Some have argued the presence of teachers on OnlyFans underscores the financial pressures those in education face
That’s funny. I thought it underscores the fact that they’re whores.
Teaching degrees are also among the easiest to get into, with the lowest requirement for academic achievement.
In my schooldays in the 1950s, if you couldn’t get a university or polytechnic place, teacher training college was your academic destination. Nowadays, I guess, they are all universities anyway.
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If the US government would only stop guaranteeing students loans, banks would be more circumspect about such lending, and likely 85% of graduate programs would shut down.
Bleating about using Onlyfans and other such strumpetuousness to pay off their considerable student loans. Maybe our yank friends might consider cutting the length of their undergraduate degrees from 4 years to 3 to help keep costs down. Though that would of course assume the universities actually care about their students rather than see them as cash cows to be milked.
Over in the UK I would’ve thought you could get most non-STEM courses down to 2 years.
The (private) University of Buckingham has always offered first degrees in two years – partly through having substantially shorter vacations. I don’t know what their fees are like.