Teaching Degrees: Who'd Thunk 4 Years Ago!

To Future Teachers Every Where:
Sorry kids that you've wasted 4 years of your lives and quite possibly be in debt to the tune of 10,000's of dollar$ in student loans. It looks like you'll be living with your parents a lot longer then you thought you would!It's estimated that as many as 700,000 teachers could lose their jobs in the next academic year with the upcoming budget cuts.- You do realize that the federal government requires you to pay back those loans starting this year if your graduating?

- You can't claim bankruptcy.

- Nor can you receive your IRS refunds if you fail to make payments.

- The federal government is also allowed to garnish your wages as well.Who'd thunk it would turn out this way when you plotted your careers in education four years ago?

The only way out of making payments is to continue borrowing (going further into debt) by going onward in college. On the other hand I'm sure that will do anyone much good either. One of the wife's close relatives saw to it his daughter received two masters degrees in education. The only job she can come up with in the Downingtown, Pa. area is part time. In another instance, one of my daughter's closest friends in Arizona, who also has a masters degree, is in the same boat. Both have been looking for fulltime employment going on three years now.

In today's political climate teachers are regarded as nothing more then a bunch of sponges. I couldn't disagree more.


True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that
your high school class is running the country."
Kurt Vonnegut