It’s far past time for us to eliminate the NEA from our schools. Their degrees are worthless. If you want science taught in your school, get someone with a real degree in science. Same for math, history, the arts, etc.
“As bad as it is that schools aren’t teaching our kids important areas of learning, it’s what they are teaching that should really frighten us.”
That otherwise decent people keep sending their kids into these crap holes is even more disturbing to me. I know, I know... They can’t afford to homeschool. And most of the single mothers don’t give a dann anyway.
Ahhh yes, the treasonous National Communist Education Association. Barf.
“It’s far past time for us to eliminate the NEA from our schools. Their degrees are worthless. If you want science taught in your school, get someone with a real degree in science. Same for math, history, the arts, etc.”
In many of the 1-8 grade public schools, the math teachers are the newest teachers in that school.
One of our grand kids became a total math dummy in his 4th grade. Fortunately, his parents got him into a Kuman math program. In months he went from a math dummy into the Math Olympics.
His older sister never had the problem. She had all A’s.
The kids were visiting one time without parents, and we discussed this issue. I asked his older sister why she didn’t have that problem. She said that she still did math like her Dad/Mother and we did. She played the new math game to get good grades.
Her good math teacher retired and a new teacher without a math major became the math teacher for her younger brother and was the home room teacher for the grand daughter.
Our GD said that she like to get into her home room earlier to do any home work that hadn’t been done. Often her home room teacher would be crying because she didn’t know how to present the math for that day to her brother’s class.
So our GD and a girl from Europe would help their teacher as much as they could.
We asked a long time friend and a teacher about how math teachers sometimes were selected in the lower grade. She told us that the youngest teacher got that assignment, and one of her daughters, not good in math was a so called math teacher.
The daughter would call up her Dad or uncle, both were retired airline and former AF pilots for help for her upcoming classes.
Her uncle lived close and would come in to help with some of the math classes.
He told the principle that he could become a math teacher at a reduced rate. They couldn’t hire him full time as he didn’t have a teaching certificate. They hired him as a substitute, and he did a lot of math instructing at that school.