Comment Big money interest groups? (Score 0) 404
Undoubtedly.
But I, as a mere citizen, feel that the Teacher's Union has done enormous harm to our educational system, and continues to do so.
I have two master's degrees and an undergraduate in physics/math, all from an Ivy League university, and was told that I could not become a teacher because I did not have a "teaching degree". Yet I regularly provide training in a corporate setting and am an experienced facilitator. Last week I conducted a training class and the comments afterwards were that "the instructor was excellent" and so on and so on. But when I wanted to have a career change, simply because I enjoy teaching, and become a teacher for a few years in a high school, I could not.
It is the Teacher's Union that is preventing us from having more qualified teachers. They act to protect their own numbers, acting like a guild. They do not have our kid's interests in mind, even though they say they do.
It should be up to a school to determine if someone is qualified to teach - not a union.