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Sun Jan 14, 2007 4:22 pm

Shiv wrote: From what I understand it's more of a thing you do because you want to and the money is more of a side benefit of the teaching.

In other words, you don't get paid much.

It depends on the location. The ones that charges $100 a student don'y pay as well as the ones that charge $300 a student

-Holiday · #22 Unread post by **-Holiday** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 4:29 pm

MSF course in PA is free.

I dont remember exactly what instructors get paid, but i think its somewhere in the low to mid teens. As was mentioned, i dont think its something you do for the money. Definitly isnt for me.

qwerty · #23 Unread post by **qwerty** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 1:03 am

Shiv wrote:
I'm sure the training will make a beeter rider out of most anyone. I wonder what the pay is for a rider coach? Is it worthwhile financially?
From what I understand it's more of a thing you do because you want to and the money is more of a side benefit of the teaching.

In other words, you don't get paid much.

I already have a job like that. I don't need another one. In Texas, the BRC price is $180, set by state law.

-Holiday · #24 Unread post by **-Holiday** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 4:18 am

Rider Coaches here in PA make $17/hour apparently.

Deleted · #25 Unread post by **Deleted** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 4:49 pm

Congratulations and good luck with the interview.

qwerty · #26 Unread post by **qwerty** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 6:03 pm

I checked out the Maryland site, and it said $19-25/hour.

I found http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/msb/ with links to most anything having to do with motorcycles and the government in Texas. I just glanced through, but it seems in Texas one must first become a MSF Certified Rider Coach, serve an unpaid internship with an approved BRC program to which the applicant is assigned, then successfully complete an additional 80 or so classroom hours, expecting 160 hours spent doing homework, and an unpaid student teaching assignment for a certain number of BRC classes. That's roughly triple the amount of training required in Maryland.

Maybe I need to go back and read that again.

#27 Unread post by **Sev** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 7:28 pm

In Alberta all I know is that you need to volunteer for the first year (so you can learn to teach people). After that you start getting a check... but it isn't a big one.

I'm thinking about signing up for the summer after this coming one. After I get my job all settled in.

qwerty · #28 Unread post by **qwerty** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 8:26 pm

I'm not wasting a year "learning to teach people" for free. I have a Bachelor of Science in Human Learning, a Master of Science in Elementary Curriculum Development, and an Educational Doctorate in Secondary Education. Hey, wait a minute, I had to pay for six years of college "learning to teach people". Free is good!

sharpmagna · Tue Jan 16, 2007 12:17 am

qwerty wrote:I'm not wasting a year "learning to teach people" for free. I have a Bachelor of Science in Human Learning, a Master of Science in Elementary Curriculum Development, and an Educational Doctorate in Secondary Education. Hey, wait a minute, I had to pay for six years of college "learning to teach people". Free is good!

Sounds like you're a tad unqualified there

-Holiday · #30 Unread post by **-Holiday** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 3:46 pm

it's official, I'm in!
I start in mid March!

p.s.
I'd like to take this time to thank my friends motof150 and qwerty. I couldnt have done it without you guys as you gave me the strength and ability to go on. I promise to not let any of my students ride suzuki m50's, and if they do, I promise to kill them with a bottle cap or maybe just let them go to show them great Mongel assasins such as myself can show mercy and compassion too.