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Show 135 and economic the next. The UEA in recent years has been concerned with the question of recertification of teachers. of their educational when they are (professional) training obtain pay increases. requirements training, courses is movement received in colleges and professionalism Yet teachers speak against recertification when faced with the costs in time and money for such and go were to establish their attempting Teachers boast not so far as to state that their educational meaningful in the first applying pressure on place.46 training In fact, school districts to reduce the or eliminate altogether the required college classes for recertifica tion.47 Summary and Conclusions The UEA and affiliates have to be ought funded more politically active generously.48 so emphatically that public claimed that teachers education will be The movement has defended collective 46In the McCarty interview, McCarty indicated that teachers to This analogy is corrnnonly It/ell trained as physicians. day Yet used to point out the need for increasing teachers' salaries. at the same time, the UEA favors "scrappingll the present recertifi cation requirements which require involvement in the same kinds of courses which supposedly helped teachers qualify as "well trained professionalsll in the first place.· See IIHouse Speaks on Recertifi In addition, common cation Issue," UEA Action 8 (April 1976): 1. the least in at room chatter, experience of the writer at faculty three separate schools, has consistently condemned the "uselessness" are as of. teacher preparation courses. 47Sernell Wrigley, Superintendent, Davis County School District, interview, Farmington, Utah, 15 December 1976. 48See Darrell lajor Kelley, IIMjor Political Strategies of Professional Organizations," (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Utah, 1970), p. xi. Kelley declares at the outset that schools must have greater financial support, that the support must come from governmental sources, and that the method to achieve such financing is political activism of teachers. His Jlfindingsll are typical of UEA rhetoric. |
