Introduction Normally, teachers are paid on a scale that takes into account years on the job and degrees earned. ... Therefore, merit pay would shorten the salary gap between education and other high, paying professions. ... People make career out of jobs they enjoy and not out of their love for money (AFT, 2000). ... With merit pay, politics are saying you aren't doing your job effectively so we are going to pay you to do it right. ... Merit pay sends the wrong message....

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The job market has decreased and many college educated people are struggling to find work, resigning to settling for low-paying jobs. ... When applying for a minimum wage paying job, applicants will also have competition from those who have degrees, but can't find jobs in their fields. There are jobs that can be found that do pay very well without a college degree however, they are very hard on the body. ... Even if I found myself unemployed or working at a low paying job I will know that I did everything in my power to create the best life I can for myself. ... There are programs to help...

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The student athletes are already working two fulltime jobs with going to school being on and the sport they play being another, so finding time to get a paying job becomes quite the challenge. ... The point that Dick Ahles is getting across is that the majority of the athletes are gone on road games for two to three days each week throughout the season, which gives them no time to find a paying job along with the fulltime one they already have. The players are losing time for studying as it is and if they need to get a paying job, they will never have time to study. Paying the players will giv...

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Clean Up or Pay Up Clean Up or Pay Up is a great story for college administrators, staff members and students to read. ... That is all these athletes are offered and they are not allowed to have part-time jobs for spending money. ...

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Educated persons are more likely to get a well-paying job, and therefore they pay taxes to help all the wonderful programs our government has created to help poor people. Also, making the country richer by having a good job as a result of an education is good because it helps the government to pay for more people's educations in turn. It is an investment that builds on itself, the government helps pay for one education and that person's education helps pay for more educations, and so and so forth. ... An educated person expects of themselves success in society: the ability to ge...

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Do you actually know how to fill out a job application form? ... If you mess up in a job, there is a big chance you can make your costumer unhappy or you can actually get fired from your job. ... Kids should be taught now to save money, how to pay the bills, how go get a job, learn to write a ressmay. ... Does learning actually pay the bills? Yes having an education will get you a job. ...

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Just simply paying attention and listening makes going to school so much easier. ... Paying attention in class reduces the load on the student, not to mention our parents who are footing the bill for our education. We are all going to have to listen to someone one day, and the ability to listen and comprehend will probably determine what we achieve in our adult life, this includes; job security (money), wife/husband/family (happiness). ... The curriculum should be taught in an interesting, intriguing, and challenging environment, in order to maintain a level of class participation that enh...

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The reasons that I have chosen this career area include: having great job satisfaction, it is in high demand, it has good pay and the working conditions in many schools where teachers work are safe and pleasant to work in. ... The pay for being a teacher ranges from $41 109 a year to $59 866 a year. I think that this is a decent amount to pay for all the necessities in life as well as those additional extras. ... This advertisement also persuades me because it states that the salary is competitive and then leads me to believe that the pay for doing the job is fairly high. ... A relative that c...

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Struggling to pay bills, searching for spare change to buy food, and never having enough money for anything are a common trait of countless college students. ... Many students upon graduating from high school have never experienced the demands of adulthood from living on their own, paying their own bills, or earning their own money. ... Because they do not have any educational conflicts, they are able to obtain better paying jobs or internships. Not only may the students use the money earned from their jobs to help pay college expenses, they are also capable of paying a variety of other ty...

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Sports are played all over the world, with most organizations paying their athletes in some form of compensation. ... Athletes are like any other college student, most have to struggle through the difficulties of being cash strapped, and as a result of their demanding athletic and scholastic schedules, cannot carry the extra load of a job. Being an athlete is a full time job and College athletes should be paid as a form of compensation for providing services and financial funds to their respective institutions. ... Yet, for most student athletes who are not financial set, it is near impossible...

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They have to rely on their job, as much as their academics, to be able to pay for all necessary books and classes that they are required to take. These jobs take time away from the student's study time. ... Just because a student is not paying for schooling does not mean they do not have to support themselves. Majority of students are away from home in college thus having to provide for themselves, and hold down a job. ... Most students would finish their college education and this will eventually pay off because our country will have many intelligent, knowledgeable workers. ...

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With fewer students attending, the amount of jobs available for staff in areas of kitchen, cleaning, and administration, could decrease. ... This in turn would leave our population with fewer jobs and could create a higher rate of unemployment. ... So provinces that help their post secondary institutions stay within a reasonable tuition will eventually benefit if these students accept jobs locally. ... In order for the students to continue on with their studies they may have to rely on jobs to pay for their schooling, which could lead to their studies suffering. If they have a family, havi...

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Most people, when searching for a career, usually pick something that they would enjoy, rather than something that they hate to do, but pays well. ... The first profession is the job of being a teacher. Over the last fifteen years, the job of being a teacher has been looked on less and less. ... The only difference that I see between the two jobs is the pay scale. ... Does that mean that being a teacher is a lesser job that being a coach? ...

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Some students may even leave the room while the teacher is talking and he may never know that the student is not paying attention. ... They can enjoy almost all of the freedoms that adults can but without the hassle of paying bills and worrying about a place to live or maybe a steady supply of food. ... This can make it hard in the future for different events such as a party, social gathering, job interview, etc. ... This can lead to the issue of employing people who do not know how to do their job. ...

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Ten years ago, a person could get a job relatively easy with a high school diploma, now it is hard to find a job with a college degree. So, American jobs demand more educated citizens that are not being produced by many public schools. ... More and more children leave the educational system uneducated; these students will earn substantially less pay, mostly in need of government assistance. "costing taxpayers an average of $292,000 over a lifetime due to the price tag associated with incarceration and other factors such as how much less they pay in taxes" (chubb 22). A student who do...

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For example there will be a lot of jobs opening. ... Many people like to work in a field where they have one specific job and that is all that they do. ... Those who retire do not always come back they start new careers that pay better than the education system. The education system does not have a very high pay rate. ... Pay plays apart in each reason that constitutes teacher shortage. ...

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People with college degrees are guaranteed to achieve higher paying jobs. ... If there are good jobs available everyone will be able to take care of themselves and their families without the help of the government. Higher paying jobs can also decrease the amount of debt we have in America. ... This causes a lot of people to take out loans that they are not able to pay back. ...

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College athletes have to devote all their time to the sport they are involved in, leaving no time for a job to earn money. ... Despite schools usually paying for food and athletic related activities, athletes still hang out with friends in non-school related settings. ... These inner city kids provide for their families in many cases or at least aid their families financially by maintaining a job. Yes, they often go to college for free, but they still lose the ability to send their families any money because they have no time for a job. ... The scholarships only harm the actual athletes by f...

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To accomplish this, you first need to pay attention in class. If you don't pay attention when the teacher is teaching then it is almost guaranteed that you will not do well in the class. ... When you do this, the finished item is better than if you waited until the last minute doing a rushed job. ...

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They said that getting a better education is critical in life if you want to have a good paying career. ... A lot of people had told me that even if I graduate and get certified as a personal trainer that it wasn't the greatest paying job, especially around western New York. ... My parents agreed to let me live with them and they will pay for my college, but I had to get a part time job to afford books, and supplies. ...

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a question you may want to ponder upon the next time you vote not to increase the educational budget so that teachers maybe paid for their jobs rather than robbed of their earnings. Teaching is a hazardous sometimes frustrating and tiring occupation not to mention depressing due to the lack of pay. ... Teachers on the other hand enter their profession under false pretenses, never really knowing that their supposed rewarding jobs come with a high price. ... It is now your job to teach them all of the above. ... In becoming all these people, a teacher must love and devote him/herself to th...

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Until 2020, the USA will be dominated by jobs which are high skill high pay, sharpening the bright side of the moon even more. ... This proposition made her suffer a serious backslash when she met up with the National Teachers Union, who disliked her proposal so much that they made her lose her job. ...

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Functionalism stands in almost in every body's theories of schooling. The political bearings controlled by the government's standings. The intellectual, of those seeking for more knowledge. The social skill that are picked up, and the economical aspects of our city. These four are the most recogniza...

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A high school diploma will not even get you a good job with your local auto mechanic. ... This case refers to thousands of dead-end jobs. ... This means working fifteen hour days, spending less time raising their children, and paying off baby-sitters and not knowing what is happening to your kids. Over the past fifty years, women have become more job oriented and can not stay home to raise a family because its too hard for a family to have one sole breadwinner working a 9 to 5 job. ... Meredith Bagby did a wonderful job with this book. ...

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Tenure is a protection given to teachers that guarantees them job security, making them extremely difficult to terminate simply if should they meet several years of experience. ... Every job, including teaching contains a clause, which states something along the lines of; "Every employee is expected to follow the working hours of his or her job description as well as all of the elements of the code of conduct"" (Human Rights Commission 1). A teacher's job description entails teaching their students, and if a teacher is not able to meet this requirement a teacher should not be able to hold...

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