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But in other professions, there is accountability. In teaching there is very little accountability because performance is never measured and standards are always discounted. Not necesarilly true. My US History students had to take an End of Instruction test. If they preform poorly on it, and that occurs often enough, I WILL find myself in the unemployment line. Why? Cause the school risks getting shut down if test scores are consistantly low. That's how it is here in Oklahoma. I can't speak for other states. As far as accountability in other professions. Sure there is, to a degree. As far as the legal profession in OK, one must graduate law school, pass the bar, and then do 12 hours of continueing legal education a year. Great, it still doesn't weed out people that have no business practicing law. I saw a kid get convicted of a crime simply because his attorney had no clue how to defend him. Guess what? That person is still practicing criminal law today.

If they preform poorly on it, and that occurs often enough, I WILL find myself in the unemployment line.

If poor performance occurs often enough, why aren't you unemployed yet?!

Because they do not fire teachers for poor performance of the students. I'll bet you do not know one teacher you have worked with that was terminated for poor performance.