The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 152, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 7, 1982 Page: 11 of 30
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"That was unprecedented
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Dallas has one of the best
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And although Houston was
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North, said Ms Cootes.
"Where there is a surplus
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New York, the average
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Santillo said Dallas filled
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the year, but the district is
worried about next year and
plans to push the legislature
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adding about 10 percent, Ms.
Cootes said. Bui she says
Texas still ranks 28th nation-
wide in teacher salaries
"If I had a math degree and
had a choice of going to IBM
for $20,000 or the Austin
school district for $13,000.
there's no doubt where I'd
go," said Bennie
Ms. Cootes said a TSTA-
commissioned study random-
ly surveyed 424 teachers in
1900 and found 38.4 percent of
Texas classroom teachers
were considering leaving
their jobs.
The study, conducted by
Sam Houston State Universi-
ty professors (leborne Mad-
dux. David Henderson and
Charles Darby, also found
about 70 percent of the
teachers would not enter the
profession if they had it to do
over again.
The surveyed teachers had
an average of 11 years ex-
perience and a mean salary
of 114,113. Ms. Cootes said
Teachers who said they
might leave their jobs cited
salary as the first reason, and
poor administrative policies,
including excessive paper-
work. as the second Lost of
esteem was third, she said.
A study by Dr Clifton Har-
ns of the University of Texas
also found loss of esteem
turned young people away
from the profession and caus-
ed teachers to quit. Ms.
Cootes said.
“I hear the expression here
a lot, just a teacher."' said
Muro, who recalled a visit to
a German high school.
"When I walked into the
room, the students stood up.
In an American classroom, if
they stand up they're pro-
bably after you.
"In my day, teaching was a
way of social mobility." says
Muro, whose parents were
immigrants. “But my
children know what a teacher
makes and they're not going
to do it."
Jane Ann Craig, who
teaches at Austin's William
B. Travis High School, sees
loss of teacher pride as part
of a vicious cycle. Low
salaries draw poor teachers,
chase away good teachers
and leave low morale
it angers me when people
attack the teaching profes-
sion." she said, "but then
most teachers deserve it, at
least the ones I've seen lately
They're mA dedicated. You
don't get the old ladies that
have been teaching 30 years.
You get people who are going
into teaching, but they want
to be doing something else
It's nig the prestigious
thing it used to be Even in
small towns, teachers used to
lie on a pedestal, but they 're
mg any more."
But societal shifts also con-
tribute to the gap between
supply and demand, say
many of the experts
"Teaching used to be a
stereotyped career for
women," Muro said. "Hul
business has opened up for
women I don't object to that
at all I think women deserve
the opportunity, but it doesn't
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minorities," said Bennie
"They used to go into
teaching because it was the
only place they could get a
job. But now, affirmative ac-
tion programs in business are
seeking out women and
minorities "
Robert McCain, Houston's
assistant superintendent for
certified personnel, said
Houston, which hasn't seen a
major shortage yet. used a
new recruiting technique last
year a "teacher fair" to
hire 700 out-of-work teachers
from the Northeast and
Midwest
But the outlying areas
that used to be piney woods
a few years ago." are seeing
real problems, McCain said.
"A guy at Humble told me
they increased 30 children a
day, which is a teacher a
day "
in Dallas, the problem has
been a record number of
resignations, said Director of
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salary be inereased to $17,000
or $18,000," he said "M we
can increase the salary that
will help And we have to
build up the incentives if
we re going to keep the
teachers we have."
"I would upgrade salaries,
but at the same time crack
down on standards," said Ms
Craig, who has taught for 14
years in four or five years.
I'll reach my peak salary
level, and I won't even be 40.
It's like telling you at 40.
‘Okay, get out You're wash-
ed up ' And I think those are
the people that ought to be en-
couraged to stay, because if
they stayed this long, they're
probably dedicated "
Muro, who called higher
salaries a "partial answer,"
sees the teacher shortage
precipitating a profound
change in the nature of
teaching
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The bright, attractive
21-year-old had good grades
and a special kind of en-
thusiasm her professors
believed would make her an
exceptional teacher.
But after getting her
degree, she decided not to
teach. Instead she will attend
"Hamburger U.“ As a fast-
food restaurant manager,
she's guaranteed a salary of
$26.000ayear.
“My fiance and I decided
we just can't live on a
teacher's pay," she told a
disappointed college dean
who has been watching his
education department shrink
and his graduates turn away
from the teaching profession.
The woman is just one ex-
ample of a trend that is
frightening many educators
who predict that increasing
population, teacher defec-
tions and steadily declining
enrollment in education pro-
grams are leading to a Texas
teacher shortage of crisis
proportions
The Texas Education Agen-
cy says in seven Rio Grande
Valley counties alone there
are over 300 "emergency cer-
tified" teachers who don't
meet state standards, and the
Texas State Teachers
Association says most school
districts started last year
with too few teachers.
"A couple of years ago.
people told me I was crying
wolf, but I wasn't," said
James Muro, Dean of Educa-
tion at North Texas State
University. "I'm not at all op-
timistic about the situation."
Muro Mid his department's
enrollment has dropped 42.8
percent since 1970, while tidal
university enrollment declin-
ed only 13 percent. Mean-
while. he said, NTSU's
business department saw an
increase of about 20 percent
"We're not getting the
talent, either in quality or
numbers, that we need."
Muro said.
William Bennie. director of
the teacher placement ser-
vice at the University of
Texas Education Department
sings a similar song
"Our enrollment has
decreased 40 percent in the
last 10 years." Bennie said
"It's a double-barrel problem
- this is an in-migration
state and Texas' birthrate is
getting higher, so there are
more children and on the
other hand fewer and fewer
people enrolling in teacher
education."
A TEA report on 1979-1980
teacher supply and demand,
predicted the tirst wave <4
real crisis will hit in 1984-1985
That's when an almost 10 per-
cent rise in Texas births from
1978 to 1979 translates into
six-year-olds ready for their
first day of school
Intersect that statistic with
a 4 percent-a-year drop in
teacher enrollments and the
fact 9.400 almost 6 percent
of Texas' teachers quit last
year, and well, panic. say
the experts
Several studies of teacher
flight" have turned up the
same reasons — low salaries,
loss of esteem" and com-
plaints about administrative
hassles, said TSTA Public
Relations Coordinator An-
nette Cootes
The Legislature deter-
mines the base pay for
teachers Currently , an inex-
perienced teacher with a
bachelor's degree can expect
to start at less than 813,000 a
year
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