[poindexters brother]

My direct experience with getting teaching credentials is that it is a costly, time-consuming process that is frustrating beyond belief for someone who is reasonably intelligent. The classes required primarily exist to provide employment for those who got their PhD in “Education”.

I found that about 1 in 10 classes required to acquire a teaching credential is worthwhile. That one class is, again based on my direct experience, typically a class on different ways to approach teaching a concept (in my case the methods class was in math).

I got so fed up with it, I decided to get a job as a software engineer.

[bubbacluck]

My wife, a credentialed teacher, wholeheartedly concurs. The one of ten classes being worthwhile....maybe one in ten.

[Irish Queen]

My teacher career spanned from 1968-2000. Most of my teacher ed classes were completely worthless. In the 1980’s and 1990’s many of my student teachers told me that their classes were a waste of their time and money.

[Almondjoy]

Now you look forward to taking the office machine out to a field somewhere and going all gangster on it. :)

[CottonBall]

My direct experience with getting teaching credentials is that it is a costly, time-consuming process that is frustrating beyond belief for someone who is reasonably intelligent.

actually, it is extremely easy to get a teaching credential. The classes are jokes -- anyone majoring in anything somewhat difficult, i.e.,NOT education, can pass these classes without ever studying. (I'm getting an A in my last class after I've decided to test how little work I can do to get a C. I keep getting 100s and 97s on tests & assignments. I won't go so far as to deliberately misspelled words or answer questions wrong -- but I'm not even reading the chapters before taking the tests!)

so, it should be ridiculously easy for any parent who already has a bachelor's degree to get their teaching credential. But, that said, I think this really is quite hypocritical. I think teacher has to have a teaching credential, then all private schools should have to hire teachers with teaching credentials. And there are many, many unaccredited private schools that have little or no standards. What's fair to expect of parents is also fair to expect that every entity that calls itself a "school".

[Scotswife]

“My direct experience with getting teaching credentials is that it is a costly, time-consuming process that is frustrating beyond belief for someone who is reasonably intelligent.”

my hubby calls it “jumping through hoops”.