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PS - For bluegoose: I'm way too much of a skeptic and spiritually dead to be teaching in CES. I've been approached about teaching on a trial basis at the Y (which is how they hire all their teachers) but at this point I just make it easy for them by letting them know they probably wouldn't want me ;-). |
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However, a well-healed prep school might be fun, if you could teach advanced placement classes. For example, my son is thirteen but he'd much enjoy classes you could teach, but he's not in Utah.
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This is what my friend has decided to do. He's a PhD in math and just finished his first year teaching at a residential high school somewhere back East. He was trying to avoid the headaches associated with university faculty-status, but he's found high school has a different set of headaches. Archaea's right, though, it's an option to consider.
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I agree. How can you be so selfish?
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A few years back I would have thought this. But then I received a summer research fellowship at BYU (this was 3 summers ago I think) where I and a few other LDS grad students from around the country worked closely with the top ranking profs from the Reli department, and a couple from FARMS.
Without getting into the nitty gritty, let me assure both you and Archaea that the "disservice" is not on my part. That seminar confirmed what I had suspected but that the idealist in me didn't see, namely, that the dept will never be anything other than a glorified seminary program. The historical-critical approach to sacred texts is NOT welcome there, beyond a very touched up, patronizing version of it. This could change but it will take a long time. |
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I actually dropped out of seminary. Maybe that's my rpoblem.
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Good point. Thanks for keeping me where I need to be (my wife will be glad to know that someone fills her spot during the day).
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Couldn't one smuggle oneself, act the part and then gradually ease the good stuff on in?
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