For Better or Worse?

    A huge debate these days concerns whether teachers should spend time and effort on getting their master's degree. Some say that uprising teachers should get higher education because you will get paid more and others say not to because they want to get rid of higher salaries for the teachers with higher education. The three main reasons for wanting to get rid of paying teachers with master's degrees are because of tight school budgets, no connection between a master's degree and a students performance and Obama's administration wanting to compensate teachers based on student performance not degree level. Kathleen Wilson who is an associate professor for the Colleges of Education and Human Services, is in favor of the master's degree program because she feels that it widens the teachers knowledge of how to be in a classroom environment. How is it that teachers with just a bachelors degree can get a job over a teacher with a masters degree? It is because some schools just do not want to pay new teachers more money because of their higher education. How is that fair? If those teachers spent the money and time to get a higher degree then they should be paid more for it. 

I feel that teachers should be paid more money if they have a higher degree. Teachers these days are being treated unfairly and taking this away from them too would just be cruel. Not all teachers get their masters for the money, some actually want to widen their education and learn more so that they can be beneficial in a child's life. This is very frustrating for those high school students who want to become teachers and are not sure whether they should go through the five year program and get their masters, myself included.