Posted by
Patriot Party #1 on Sunday, August 10, 2008 2:27:39 AM
I am a public school teacher in the "Golden State" of CA. I battled back and forth with the committee on teacher credentialing in Sacramento for six months. They told me in an email (the only way to contact them, they won't answer the phone) no problem, just send in the two needed items as your credential states. So I did that, ten weeks later they send me back a letter listing six things I was required to do to get my clear. Two of the six were never mentioned before that letter, and one of the six I knew I didn't need to do.
The government doesn't even try to appear to be responsive to the people of this once great state. My situation is settled now, and I'm a legal teacher again. In that time I wouldn't have been, did my abilities drop? We need more people who want to teach, not just more of those who want to have summers off and get to be administrators asap because,"that's where the money is." The state should be helping good people get through this maze they call teacher training, not making it constantly more and more difficult to the point that many have given up. I recently talked to a guy that said he was going back into law enforcement, "it is easier to be a cop than a teacher he said. "
The seemingly endless redtape that is in this state is maddening to many of us. That is one of the reasons so many families are leaving here. I hear it is much better in other states, what has been your experience, in or out of the not so golden state?