Letter: Why should teachers have to work for free?
Al Hartmann | The Salt Lake Tribune
Students raise their hands in full classroom of 32 students in a Spanish class at South Jordan Middle School Monday Feb. 1.
Why does a person who has completed four years of learning how to be a teacher have to teach one year without pay? They are letting people teach who have had no schooling teach and get paid for it, while the person who has gone to college for four years gets no pay. How is that fair?
Verla Withers
Taylorsville
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