UK perspective on teaching

http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,5500,1588799,00.html

The guardian found this little "pirate haven" that cultivates readers in San Francisco interesting enough to report on, including the founder's opinions on the U.S.
About NCLB:
""There's more restrictions," he says. "They make them teach for the test, which combined with less pay and less creativity [means] you attract a different crowd. The person that goes into teaching now, with the average starting salary of $26,000 ... you have a lot of saints, who maybe otherwise would go into the priesthood or a nunnery.

"Almost all of them say, yes, they want better money, but they say first what they want is respect and freedom to be a creative professional. And when you take away both sides of it, I don't know who you have left."

Sue J, webmastress www.resourceroom.net