Will Weatherford’s Monday Morning Quarterback Routine Continues
From Gradebook:
Bill Gates would have a hard time getting a job teaching high school in Florida, said the state’s incoming speaker of the house. The bureaucracy is too onerous, and the pay scales too rigid.
“There’s no reason why the best science teacher in Hillsborough County shouldn’t be able to make $100,000 a year or more,” said Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel. “Right now it’s almost like charity work.”Of course no public school district can afford the founder of Microsoft. And Weatherford, speaking at an education summit in Tampa on Wednesday, said several times that the legislature cannot cure a deficit in students pursuing careers in STEM, which stands for science, technology,
