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Re: Why no jobs in Loveland
Posted by TC on 5/01/08

    Boulder supposedly has a zillion applicants for every position. Thus, the
    flippant attitude there. I think you will have to teach in Denver or
    some rural community. Sorry for the bad news.


    On 5/01/08, Rodeo wrote:
    > Here is an example of what you are up against. So you live in Loveland
    > which is on the way to Boulder from Denver. Boulder is an extremely
    > affluent community. Many of the students there will be children of
    > highly educated parents whose vocations are engineering, computer
    > work, and other silicone valley type of careers. The schools there are
    > servicing large populations of middle to high income white students
    > whose parents highly value education. Many of these students will go
    > on later to earn teaching credentials.
    >
    > Boulder is one of the most beautiful places on Earth in my opinion.
    > This would be an opinion shared by others shared in Colorado. My
    > boyfriend grew up in Pensecola, Florida. He wants to live by the beach
    > as an adult. He misses the salt air, humidity, heat. I grew up in
    > Colorado. I love and miss the mountains, high altitude, dryness. So
    > Boulder will have no lack of individuals who would love to get hired
    > there to live in paradise and teach children who are highly
    > academically motivated.
    >
    > But there are not as many positions in Boulder as there are
    > applicants. So the next best thing for someone who wants to be where
    > they grew up and love or someone who did not grow up there but wants
    > to be in the almost mountains would be to end up close to Boulder,
    > like in Loveland. Then they are not far from parents, home, the world
    > they know.
    >
    > Places like these just are not going to have a shortage of teaching
    > applicants. You can get hired in Colorado but it will be tough to get
    > hired in prime locations like these. Aspen, Vail, Boulder, Cherry
    > Creek, Durango, Evergreen, Conifer, and other cherry locations just
    > are not going to be easy to get hired into.
    >
    > Your odds would be better in places where most people wouldn't want to
    > relocate to and where there are not local credential programs churning
    > out teachers so relocation is generally required by teachers. These
    > are places in Colorado that I would not want to live because they are
    > farming backwaters that would be no improvement over living in some
    > farm community like in Kansas or Nebraska. For example, Trinidad,
    > Pagosa Springs, Buena Vista, Salida, Farmersville and other horrid
    > little holes would probably have fewer applicants because they lack
    > what makes Boulder wonderful. They tend to lack much impressive in the
    > way of mountains, museums, ethnic restaurants, libraries and
    > bookstores, etc. Although I still think that there may be Coloradoans
    > that have been educated in nearby mountain colleges and will teach in
    > those places. Colorado has a lot of really decent colleges that
    > service these backwater communities and that provide a much better
    > college education than to be had at even major San Diego Universities
    > like San Diego State University. Colorado just tends to have an
    > educated populace outside of urban Denver. It makes it a tough,
    > competitive job market for educated people.
    >
    > I am just being honest to how I would see the situation from the point
    > of view of a person who grew up in Colorado. To someone who grew up
    > there, these mountain towns are some of the most beautiful places God
    > made and a great place to raise children. Whether that is true or not,
    > there will be enough people thinking that that competition for
    > teaching jobs will be high in these places.
    >
    > Maybe you could compromise by finding some of the places in Colorado
    > that do have a hard time recruiting teachers because not so many
    > people want to live in those towns. You might just have to make a list
    > of Colorado school districts and start cold-calling and honestly tell
    > them that you are trying to find a community that has a challenge
    > recruiting teachers.
    >

     
     

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