OK perhaps the good professor doesn't realize that in many public school districts the teachers of that particular high school building don't teach the College Credit Plus classes. Why you ask, because the structured teaching requirements mean that even some high school teachers with a Master's can't teach the College Credit Plus courses. For example, many Higher Ed institutions use their own staff and or hire a myriad of adjunct faculty in my old teaching field of Social Studies. Why you ask, because a high school teacher with a Master's has to have a set number of hours past his or her Master's to teach that particular College Credit Plus class. I know an administrator at Columbus State who says his staff pulls their hair out in late summer and early January as they try to manage the classes they are obliged to teach from the local high schools in which they have a contract.

Perhaps the good professor might want to explain to Johnny and Suzy's parents why getting the near of equivalent of an Associates's while in high school is a bad thing if it saves the parents and their children thousands of dollars. I don't know if he wrote that due to ignorance or what, but I would suggest he might want to find the exit doors before he gives a talk at a high school telling parents they need to pay more for a college education because he doesn't like College Credit Plus. Talk about Ivory Tower elitism!

As for his reference to administrative and salary bloat, I share his frustration. Alan, OCF and others would be far more conversant than myself in knowing the ins and outs of that bloat. However, in all fairness how many professors haven't upped their game in a while either. In another thread some time ago, I believed I shared a story that in the early 1980s I was taking a History 101 course when the professor (who I will not name) mistakenly referred to an invention of Hiram Moore as one associated with Cyrus McCormick. A son of a farmer in the class corrected him and the professor laughed; showing us his decrepit looking notebook stating he had made the same mistake for every quarter since the Fall of 1965 when he first started teaching the class. The point being, some profs rail at administrators when the need to get their own professional and creative house in order.

That is a very good question Alan. I would imagine it has to do with the local universities in the area. It seems in the central Ohio area Columbus State has more options. I think they partner with Ohio Dominican, but Columbus State supplies the adjunct faculty. In addition to the Delaware County campus, Columbus State actually goes the high schools whereas Ohio State makes the students come to one of their campuses. I don't know the numbers with regard to Columbus State vs Ohio State. However, I would imagine many students outside of Franklin County would take the Columbus State option because of transportation issues. I can't get into the weeds or details, because I really don't know all the ins and outs.

Alan, I am pretty sure that most students who take College Credit Plus have no desire to go into the teaching profession. My sense of these students; they are eager to concentrate on getting requirements out of the way. These are the same kids who take PE in summer. In doing this, they can take a more prestigious elective during the school year so that they can show prospective colleges they are serious students. Many may be also be keeping the Master's option open.

As for the hiring process. In any field it is somewhat of a crap shoot; Education often being the most noteworthy for the worst of reasons. God knows I have interviewed enough students at campus recruiting fairs that I thought they just aren't ready. Yet, it is often the teacher who has a few years under his or her belt that engages in inappropriate conversations etc with students that really throws one for a loop. We certainly have seen enough of this in the news lately.

Keep in mind before World War II, students were sent to teachers's college for a year or two after high school and then sent into the classroom. My grandmother finished high school a month short of her 17th birthday and was teaching in a One Room Schoolhouse one month short of her 18th birthday. Three students in her classroom were older than her. Heaven help the child that tried to roll over that 5 foot young woman. Maturity can't always be measured in years.

In a somewhat related topic, here is an interesting article concerning former
Indiana Governor and current Purdue President Mitch Daniels and why Purdue's tuition has been frozen at less than $10,000 a year since 2013. Yet, faculty pay has increased more than other universities and Purdue is in the middle of a building boom.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/04/mitc... /