Originally Posted by krazy88s
I agree. My mom has been a special ed teacher for almost 30 years and from seeing the hard work she does I feel like many teachers areunappreciated and underpaid. The kids that my mom has to deal with have emotional behavior disorders and the stories she's told me are wild. We placeemphasis on the wrong professions in America.
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Originally Posted by krazy88s
I agree some teachers should be making more. But I think your idea would only attract people who are after the money and the benefits,not because they want to teach. I also read some charter schools pay better than public schools...
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The MESBEC program is the oldest of CTD's programs. The six priority fields of study are math, engineering, science, business, education, and computers. Science includes all the medical fields. These fields are the ones in which tribes need graduates the most, and the fields in which there are the fewest Indian graduates.
The Native American Leadership Education program (NALE) is for Native students who are paraprofessionals in Indian schools, and who plan to complete their degree in education, counseling, or school administration. Since only 7% of teachers in reservation schools are Indians, the need for more Indian teachers is huge.
The Tribal Business Management program (TBM) is for students in business, finance, management, economics, banking, hotel management, and related fields who plan to work in economic development for tribes.
Our scholarship program operates nationwide. Scholarships range from $500 to $5,000 per academic year. Scholarships are awarded on merit and on the basis of the students we feel will most likely improve the lives of Indian people. CTD provides supplementary scholarship funding for those who have received college funding from other sources. Competition is very intense, with only 55% of applicants receiving scholarships.
http://www.gocollege.com/...erican-scholarships.html
http://www.catchingthedream.org/Scholarship.htm
Just to get you started...
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Definitely agree with you on many points. However, I believe that many of these "liberal arts" degrees do more good than evil, and are morebeneficial than they are harmful. All it takes is for members of any society to realize this, instead of being enamored with money. If you do your homework,you'll realize that the "liberal arts" was the only train of academic thought offered back in the days of, for example, Chaucer, Shakespeare,Michelangelo...etc. That's because back then, real societal regard was placed on a "liberal" education, contrary to contemporary values.That's why people were arguably smarter back then--and why polymaths and genuine renaissance men were so common, relative to now.
"a man can do all things if he will." It embodied the basic tenets of Renaissance Humanism which considered man empowered, limitless in his capacities for development, and led to the notion that people should embrace all knowledge and develop their capacities as fully as possible. Thus the gifted men of the Renaissance sought to develop skills in all areas of knowledge, in physical development, in social accomplishments and in the arts.
That was the power of the "liberal arts" and why it was coveted in the past. That said, realize that the "professional andvocational curriculum emphasize specializing", and nothing more. They train you to complete tasks in a very formulaic manner--they train you to"do" what needs to be done and nothing more. All one needs is good-to-excellent memory. The "liberal arts curriculum on the other hand, servesto impart general knowledge and develops a student's rational thought and intellectual capabilities". In other words, it trains you to think. To seebeyond the formula and/or the equation.
Ideally, that was the intended goal of said school of thought. Unfortunately, that is no longer the case. Even now, within the liberal arts, one merely needsto focus--or rather, specialize--in an individual area of knowledge (biology/ english/ math, history) to be considered "liberally educated"--which inmy opinion, is absolute horse $$!@. And even still, if the original intentions of the liberal arts education were conserved and carried out to the present,they would still be of little value in the eyes of American society for the mere fact that this country is all about the pursuit of MONEY, and nothing else.Thus, professional and vocational degrees will always take precedence over liberal art ones--which is really sad. Given the choice between a teacher and afinancial analyst, following news that civilization was about to end and thus, we would need to rebuild from the ground up, necessitating the need to"save" people with important roles in any society, best believe that I'd select the teacher, or social worker, or historian.
Originally Posted by Dead Stokc
Been ducking Sallie for a good 2 years now.
Now, Im in default, and owe $32k. I been
gettin deferments, but stopped, just dont
have it to be giving it up. They finally caught
me today, and now I have to pay principle
interest of $230 a month until July just to get
out of default, which isnt that bad, but damn.
Hell, I even avoided comin into this thread.
I knew I was goin to have to pay it back of course,
but I was tryin to pay it all at once, through a financial
opportunity that has yet to happen.
could always be worse tho.
32K...
Damn bro...that's tough AND rough...
I thought I had it bad with the 9Gs I owe. How did you accumulate so much...did you go to a private school...?
And as for Sallimae, these mofos are straight despicable...
Just got off the phone with them about 30 mins ago over some under-handed ishh that's going on with my account. How you put my loans into repayment"mode" when I am still in school. Furthermore, from the time that they activated my repayments (September) up to now, I've accumulated $64 ininterest, on a SUBSIDIZED loan that was not supposed to be activated in the first place. The lady on the phone talkin' 'bout, "well sir, you willhave to repay that $64"--even though that's interest that accrued due to a mistake on y'all part...shhhhhhhhh...
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