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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FungiMuncher" data-source="post: 1798665" data-attributes="member: 1094">At least here in Ohio, being protestant isn't a problem.  I've subbed at one Catholic school and had interviews at a couple others.  Even had one job offer (but ultimately turned it down).  The question of my religious background never came up.I have an MA in education, and got that before any teaching job.  I took me five years after graduating before I got my teaching job.  Some folks suggested it was due to my high education/low experience.  Personally, I think it was simply due to my low experience, and the abundance of teachers in the area at the time.  Where I currently teach, there is one teacher with a PhD.  We teach in a middle school.  There are quite a few teachers with PhDs in the disctrict.  My impression is that for some districts, having to pay the higher salary for a teacher's PhD might be an issue.  However, for most, the added prestige of claiming a higher degreed person on staff more than makes up for it.If you think getting hired with an advanced degree and no experience might be a problem with where you want to settle, then delaying the advanced degree could be a strategy you use.  If you know were you're going to be in the next year or two, doing some research on this might be good.  However, if such things are less well defined, and you really want that advanced degree, I'd say go for it!  No sense in delaying your goals when opportunity comes knocking. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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