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My husband teaches in N. Florida
By fun_friend

The pay in Florida is not that great compared to Georgia--at least in the northern areas. I'm told the pay is much better in the larger cities further south, but the price of living is much higher in those urban areas as
well. When I got my masters degree in 2001, I received a $6,000 raise in GA, but in FL it would have been about $1,500 per year.

They absolutely NEED the class size amendment, but Jeb Bush is trying to find creative ways to get around the will of the people to have the children of Florida to be in a class that doesn't number over 30 (in a high school my husband taught at a few

years ago that he worked at for over 15 years) it was not unusual to teach honors English to close to 40 10th graders in a room. He didn't even have enough desks or really enough space to put extra desks. It is that way at my niece's high school in the Miami-Dade area as well. The govenment thinks maybe having the classes filled to standing room only and supplying two teachers is a solution to the class size amendment in some areas. I know that reducing class size is not a cheap endeavor, but Florida definitely needs to build additional schools. Their population is really booming.

My impression of the Miami high school where my niece graduated is that it amounted to teen-age day care and was easy-peasy to get a diploma without even coming to class (my niece was a notorious skipper). Not to mention that you might want to bone up on your Spanish if you intend to teach and make your home in South Florida.

But I do live in a particularly charming corner of GA--1/2 of the teachers that work in my school actually live in Florida and commute!