Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!warpdrive!stewartw
From: stewartw@warpdrive.UUCP (Stewart Winter)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Community College strike
Message-ID: <7496@warpdrive.UUCP>
Date: 15 Nov 89 20:18:50 GMT
References: <1989Nov14.121020.29124@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: stewartw@cognos.UUCP (Stewart Winter)
Distribution: ont
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <1989Nov14.121020.29124@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> kem@csri.toronto.edu (Kem Luther) writes:

>Is it  right  that  college faculty  should  be  paid  less  than
>primary  and  secondary  teachers  in  Ontario?  Is it right that
>teachers at any level should be as  well  paid  as  they  are  in
>Ontario?   These  are hard questions to answer.  I sometimes fear

   Yes, they are hard questions.  Personally I feel that primary
and secondary teachers should be paid more.  The required level
of education of a college teacher (in many areas) does not have
to go beyond a bachelor's degree (same as the others).  However,
the college teacher responsibility is to try to pass on some skill
to his students.  The primary and secondary teacher have the
additional burdens of teaching people to want to learn (ie teaching
us to desire literacy and knowledge).  They must deal with poorly 
motivated students, for example.  In general society expects
more from them.

  Are they all overpaid?  Well, I would say that cost-of-living
increases on the base salary from here on to eternity should be as
much as any teacher should dare to ask for (I am assuming that
their contract also has a graduated scale for experience, seniority
and responsibility).

 Stewart


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