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From: sccowan@watmsg.waterloo.edu (S. Crispin Cowan)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Community College Teachers on strike
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Date: 15 Nov 89 21:56:45 GMT
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In article <1989Nov14.232239.5289@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> gbs@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Gideon Sheps) writes:
>Have you perhaps applied for a job as a high school teacher recently ?
>If so.. where was it - many people are currently looking for *the* 
>opening in Ontario.
>
>Ok.. I exagerate slightly... but only slightly.

Well, as I understand it, you completely miss the mark.  The demand
for high school teachers seems to cycle severly on a 5-year cycle.  5
years ago, if you wanted a teachers job, you had to go to Moose Jaw.
Now, if you can teach math, computer science, or French, or can fake
it :-) then you're hired, in just about any city you want.  This is
according to three teaching students/recent grads in teaching.  I
assume that the high price for teachers at this time refelects fair
market value (supply:demand ratio).  At a later date, when the cycle
falls, the union will preserve the teachers wages at an unfairly high
rate, forcing school boards to do unreasonable things to class
size/recent hires/municipal taxes.

>-- 
>Gideon Sheps
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