Re:As an education professional (Score 1)

This is still crap. The reason you are seeing the argument repeated is that you aren't refuting it, you are denying it without evidence. If this is an example of your "reasoning" it is another argument for higher standards in vetting educators. I repeat, you don't have to be a musician to recognize a sour note, you don't have to be a doctor to recognize some classes of malpractice (scalpel left in after an operation), and you don't have to be a teacher to recognize some of the problems in the system.

If the point you are TRYING to make is that nonteachers are adocating unrealistic solutions because they don't understand teaching and don't have experience in teaching or managing a classroom, you don't have to persuade me, I agree. However, that isn't what you are saying.

As it happens, I homeschooled my children for 7 years, taught classes as a graduate student, and still write training materials and conduct professional education as part of my job, for whatever that is worth. However, none of that is necessarily relevant. When I see a gifted teacher removed from a challenging science class, and subsequently being replaced by a basketball coach who has more seniority, and whose idea of teaching is showing videos and passing out worksheets 165 days of the school year, I don't have to be a teacher to realize the system has a problem.

As a whole, I don't have a problem with the teaching profession, I think parents are the root of most problems. My major issue is that teachers are not self-policing, and just circle the wagons and attack anyone who wants accountability in the profession. Seniority is a not a sufficient measure of excellence or even of competence.