Re:Why Do Teachers Quit?
by speeder on Sunday October 20, 2013 @10:56PM
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By the way, in Brazil most teachers get mininum wage (currently around 300 USD mo for 44 hours of work every week, summing classroom time with preparation time)
Because it is not enough to pay even basic living expenses in many cities (like São Paulo) some teachers here fill all their waking time with classroom time, and hope they will figure the homework somehow (thus they end having two or three jobs, working 60 hours at classroom or even more)
Public Universities here are the best stuff you can have without being a 0.1% richest (when you can pay actual Ivy League on US like Facebook founder Eduardo or when you can pay Ivy League-like stuff here, like Fundação Getúlio Vargas), to get in one you must pass a test that is a competition, Computer Engineering for example usually has 45 candidates for every spot.
The public university course to teach children (I forgot the name) is the only course that has more spots than people wanting to get in (last time I checked there was 0.3 candidates for every spot), usually they cannot even fill the classroom, because beside not having enough candidates in first place, many fail the test completely (ie: although the test is a competition and you usually do not have to bother with mininum score, most universities do not let you in if you go abysmally bad on the test, like having a zero in any subject or having a average below 30%...)
Because it is not enough to pay even basic living expenses in many cities (like São Paulo) some teachers here fill all their waking time with classroom time, and hope they will figure the homework somehow (thus they end having two or three jobs, working 60 hours at classroom or even more)
Public Universities here are the best stuff you can have without being a 0.1% richest (when you can pay actual Ivy League on US like Facebook founder Eduardo or when you can pay Ivy League-like stuff here, like Fundação Getúlio Vargas), to get in one you must pass a test that is a competition, Computer Engineering for example usually has 45 candidates for every spot.
The public university course to teach children (I forgot the name) is the only course that has more spots than people wanting to get in (last time I checked there was 0.3 candidates for every spot), usually they cannot even fill the classroom, because beside not having enough candidates in first place, many fail the test completely (ie: although the test is a competition and you usually do not have to bother with mininum score, most universities do not let you in if you go abysmally bad on the test, like having a zero in any subject or having a average below 30%...)