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Originally Posted by Trollheart
I'd have to ask then how teachers get their jobs? Are there not any kind of conditions, any exams they have to pass? This is ridiculous; these are the people training the minds of those who may end up running the country at some stage? When I went to hedge school, at least the wizards and monks all knew their stuff. It's disgraceful to say that teachers - surely, in terms of knowledge, the most relied (or expected to be able to be relied) upon other than doctors and lawyers - are so badly trained and so ill-informed. Batty, your story about the Lieutenant is a glaring example, and exactly as you say: even if you don't know the name, how could someone with so low a rank be a supreme commander? It's not like they were like that guy in World War II, Sergeant Montgomery.  |
In many states you can teach for three years without proper certification. When they replace teachers with “permanent subs” there’s almost no vetting process at all. In the roughest schools they’ll take anyone who will stay in the classroom. That’s against the law but they can’t get people to do it so they look the other way.