Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Teaching grades 1-3 demands real skill. Grades 4-10 is just glorified baby sitting that doesn't demand much of a skill set. It's mostly just a willingness to accept abuse. 11-12 grade only takes real skill if you're teaching AP classes. Now that discussion has replaced the genuine lecture model the only real teachers in college teach hard sciences. Lit, history, psychology, business, political science- it's all garbage at this point. Those professors are frauds.