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Re: Sacramento, CA



Greetings,

If you like teaching and retirement has come, explore teaching high school physics. No, I am not recommending becoming a full time high school physics teacher. What I am suggesting is to hook up with a school system who needs a physics teacher. You dictate what you will and will not do and then agree on a contract. Never would I go back into full time high school teaching. No need wasting time telling you where to put that study hall, after school assignment, etc.

I retired from the public high school scene 11 years ago. Am now teaching 3 high school classes of physics. The honors class has 10 student with two regular classes of 11 and 8 students. Done by either 11:30 or 12 noon. Plenty of time to do what I want.

Check it out. Then hook up with a high school teacher that will clue you on the HS scene of today. Good luck. Dick
Helping teachers who teach, motivating students who learn.
"Science is nothing more than learning how to communicate with nature in such a manner that it will talk back."

Dick Heckathorn 14665 Pawnee Trail Middleburg Hts, OH 44130-6635 440-826-0834
Physics Teacher Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy 4687 Wyoga Lake Road Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44224 330-929-0575 VM 120


-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Rauber [SMTP:Joel_Rauber@SDSTATE.EDU]
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 4:12 PM
To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
Subject: Re: Sacramento, CA


Thanks for the thought, Brian. I'm looking forward to a pleasant
retirement with a course to teach (introductory astronomy) in the
fall and, perhaps, the physics of music in the spring. I will be
Professor Emeritus on my retirement, and the Chairman just asked
me if, since I was going to be around, I would be advisor to the
physics majors for the next year. Fortunately I don't really need
the money. We've saved plenty over the years, our house is paid
off, and I will get federal benefits and a pension if I elect to
take it. The only thing that bothers me is that almost every
other kind of employment is protected from age discrimination. We
professors have been singled out (in a Supreme Court decision, no
less) for special exemption from this protection in our Charter
of Rights and Freedoms, a pale imitation of your Bill of Rights.


A depressing comment from south of the border, at least it is depressing to
me; being a state employee.

Some recent US supreme court cases seem to have nudged things into the
direction that state employees do not enjoy many of the same rights in the
work place that all others enjoy, for example states can practice age
discrimination if they want. The legal basis has something to do with
seperation of powers between federal government and state governments and
the idea that only items specifically enumerated in the constitution can
take precedence of state law. (being no lawyer, I may have muddled the
above description.)

I take this to mean that some types of discrimination may not be practiced
by state governments on constitutional grounds; e.g. I believe that race
discrimination would not be allowed as many of those laws are based on the
14th amendment, which being in the constitution falls in the set of statutes
and powers specifically enumerated in the the constitution.

It is generally not appreciated by US citizens just how limited their rights
are under the US constitution. One of the more obvious examples is that
there exists a great deal of considered legal opinion that maintains there
is no right to privacy within the US constitution (this is a debated point).

Joel Rauber