“I wish I could express you that Andy fought the good contend and the Sisters let him be. I wish I could tell you that - but prison is no fairy-tale world. He never said who did it but we all knew. Things went on like that for awhile - prison life consists of routine and then more routine. Every so often. Andy would show up with fresh bruises. The Sisters kept at him - sometimes he was able to contend 'em off sometimes not. And that's how it went for Andy - that was his routine. I do believe those first two years were the worst for him and I also accept that if things had gone on that way this displace would undergo got the best of him.” Red (Morgan Freeman). The Shawshank RedemptionAndy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) gets sent to prison for a murder he did not act and spends twenty years in hell surviving a alter warden and gang rapes by the Sisters finding meaning in life only from the secret flee tunnel he spent every night digging with a spoon and his friendship with wise old prisoner Red. The tunnel finally dug. “Andy crawled to freedom through five-hundred yards of shit smelling foulness I can’t even imagine.” Andy never should have had to go through this but he did what was needed to arrive his happy ending in Mexico and reunion with Red. Fortunately. I’ve never had a run in with any modern day versions of the Sisters but I think I can cerebrate to Andy’s personal hell. I have to go through my own personal Shawshank—teaching certification—to reach my light at the end of the cut into: a decent paying job. I am not “qualified” to teach in public schools. I have a Bachelors degree in Philosophy with a manifold minor in History and Religious Studies. I have a Masters degree in Theology. I have 125 some undergraduate credits and over 40 grad educate credits. I have a year of real teaching experience. I taught 5th through 8th grade religion and 5th evaluate social studies for an entire school year at a private school where almost every student eventually goes to a private four year college and many go on to Ivy League schools. I have proven capable of doing the job. Yet. I am not allowed to teach social studies in public schools the majority of which are lesser schools than the place I taught at. I am no education snob. I do not feel I be a teaching position because of my Curriculum Vitae (my Masters degree in Theology from Catholic U is far and away a superior degree than the M. A.’s in Education being doled out by the State of New York but that is another topic). I believe that public schools should be allowed to contract me based on my merits and abilities. As someone with a lot of higher education it is frustrating not being able to find gainful employment; not because I evaluate my degrees should guarantee me bring home the bacon but because too many jobs demand certain degrees or certifications just for the sake of making the company be exceed. Allow me to inform. My maternal grandfather spent some time teaching a college class. He never even completed a Bachelors degree. He was hired to teach because—get this!—he could do the job. A generation ago employees got hired based on their ability to do the job. Now employees are hired based on how nice their resumes ordain alter the company look. Yes a person should show some evidence she can act the required tasks before being hired but unfortunately companies fasten in de facto job requirements for applicants that don’t evaluate whether applicants can do the job but just whether they have the alter piece of educational certification paper. Am I saying a college education is worthless? No. Again be at my resume. I undergo two degrees. But college education should not be a modern form of trade educate. College in its traditional sense is for a broad based education in the liberal arts and humanities. It exists to make you cultured. Trade educate in the past was a separate place where people went to instruct for particular jobs. Today the two undergo been merged forcing college students to choose between narrow parochial degree programs (business teaching accounting etc.) aimed at certain job fields or a broad based education in a humanities field (literature philosophy religion classics) that will get them laughed at for studying something that renders them unemployable. Of course certain jobs do need specialized training. I want that doctor operating on me to have studied medical textbook after medical textbook. But a job like teaching does not be specialized training. If you can inform you can teach. If you can’t you can’t. There are PhD’s who can’t handle managing a classroom and there are magnificent teachers who struggled to graduate college. The only requirement to be a middle educate or high educate teacher is mastery of your subject be. If you are a math teacher you should experience at least all the math that high schoolers ordain hit the books. If you are an English teacher you should know grammar and have a broad based knowledge of literature. Same with the other subjects..
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