We know lots of parents who are home-schooling their children. I think anyone with an IQ over 100, and the proper curriculum, can do a decent job of teaching grade and high school students. Degrees aren't necessary. In fact, I think a degree in "Education" is an example of "learned incapacity."
“In fact, I think a degree in “Education” is an example of “learned incapacity.”
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A couple of my kids attend a public high school. They want to know why their teachers don’t seem to know much about the subjects they teach. Their English teachers are young and act like high school cheerleaders. One of them told one of my DS that Troy has nothing to do with Homer’s _The Illiad_. Another DS’s German teacher won’t answer questions that go beyond the pace of the class (1-2 textbook pages per week), and his history teacher blames the latest earthquakes on global warming. This DS’ English teacher gave him 100% on an essay in which he wrote a bunch of gobbledy-gook. I asked DS how he could write nothing and get such a good grade. He said he knew what she wanted to hear.
My kids are angry about this. I repair the damage after school and during summer vacations. I’d pull those two out of PS, except that they are extroverts and they hate the idea of being stuck in our rural home in the sticks with no one outside the family to talk to except the cows. Plus they love participating in JROTC. They prefer for me to after-school and summer-school them.