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Are you a student that has a hard time concentrating in class? Do you prefer to be a hands on student rather than a lecturing student? If you enjoy being outdoors, this is the article for you. I am going to be explaining all of the benefits of an agriculture teacher. One of the main reasons why don’t have a full time on staff agriculture teacher is mostly because we’ve never had a history of an ag teacher. Agriculture teacher are also very expensive compared to any other teacher. You have to pay them a full teacher salary, plus all of the summers they have to put in such as county fairs, and lastly for all of their travelling they do. Not to mention how hard it is to find an ag teacher. One of the reasons why it's so hard to find a ag teacher is because most agricultural fields pay $70,000+ a year. The average ag teachers income is around $40,000. The majority of people would gladly choose the $70,000 over the $40,000. Mr. Novak believes that by having an agriculture teacher would mostly positive outcomes. There is so many jobs that come out of ag, not just farming. For example, marketing, seed …show more content…
If we were seriously going to look into a full time ag teacher we would more than likely have to look into a different IT program which is the shop. A lot of people would be wondering “Where would we put an ag room? We don't have a big enough room for one”. That's a false statement, we would move the art room to the spare room by Mrs. Bornemeier’s classroom. We then would turn the old art room into the ag classroom. Money for an ag teacher is not the issue, we could fit it into our budget. We would also have to plan ahead for a ag teacher. There is highly demand for an ag teacher not just at Elmwood-Murdock but in the whole state of Nebraska. Even if the demand for an ag teacher is even with an IT teacher, we could considered combining both classes into

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