Posted on 11/09/2004 8:00:21 AM PST by truth49
Have you noticed that the more "credentialed" teachers become, the more they are indoctrinated into liberalism? What they need to do is hire teachers who are experts in their respective subjects, not education majors. Let's get a math major teaching math or a biologist teaching biology. The whole "accreditation" thing is bogus. It means that they've been certified as true blue NEA members with the proper political orientation and believers in the religion of political correctness.
No criminal charges for defrauding the state...If I get caught hunting or fishing with a fake license what happens?
How about law suits from all the students whose education from a fake is also fake
Paging Johnnie Edwards....
I've a problem with the teachers and others (as mentioned in this article) who profits from taxpayers expense.
Kerry voters all.
Teachers do get performance reviews, but I'm sure if you think it's that cushy, you could find a school to hire you, assuming you have some sort of college degree.
I've worked in industry and in public schools, and let me assure you that working in industry is easier and pays better.
"First, God created idiots. That was just for practice. Then He created school boards."
--Mark Twain
Worked years at a Washington School district personnel office. Not once did we check credentials. This report is not a surprise to me at all. In fact, they should dig further.
There was either a VP or President of a Community College is Central Michigan that had been hired and was employed in that position for like +10 years.
He had nothing more than an Associates Degree.
Shows you just how much all that formal education is really needed for those Positions.
Sorry, he had presented himself as someone that had either a Phd or Masters in Ed.
Any of those phony paper mills are indeed some of the biggest scams around, kind of like those "name a star for someone" scams too.
Unfortunately, in some places, Republicans are among those diminishing the quality of teacher qualifications by just requiring passing a simple test to qualify as a teacher. In other places, the government is funding institutions that do not require hardly any qualifications at all to be a teacher. Both of these practices and those mentioned in the article should be discontinued.
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