As a licensed teacher I can state with absolute confidence that if you cannot pass any given state’s competency tests, you do not have any business being a teacher. Typically each state has tests for baseline knowledge of reading, writing, and math, as well as a subject specific test to make sure you have above average knowledge of whichever subject you plan to teach. If you cannot pass all of these tests, you are unfit. There should be no debate on this matter. The tests are absurdly easy, to the point that you would honestly have to be lower than 90 IQ to not get a passing score of 70%.
An interesting phenomenon is that while the majority of students suffer from an ever increasing deluge of unqualified idiots, the Catholic and Private schools across the country are reaching out and poaching any remaining qualified teachers still in the system. With the rise of tuition for such institutions and the fact that courts often undermine state initiatives for choice in education, which would allow lower and middle income families to receive state sponsored tuition assistance towards such schools, I wouldn’t call a man crazy if they suggested this was by design. I’m sure many feel as I do, that there is a concerted effort to create a new aristocracy and reduce the other 99% of the population to becoming a bunch of fucking Morlocks.
As a licensed teacher I can state with absolute confidence that if you cannot pass any given state’s competency tests, you do not have any business being a teacher. Typically each state has tests for baseline knowledge of reading, writing, and math, as well as a subject specific test to make sure you have above average knowledge of whichever subject you plan to teach. If you cannot pass all of these tests, you are unfit. There should be no debate on this matter. The tests are absurdly easy, to the point that you would honestly have to be lower than 90 IQ to not get a passing score of 70%.
An interesting phenomenon is that while the majority of students suffer from an ever increasing deluge of unqualified idiots, the Catholic and Private schools across the country are reaching out and poaching any remaining qualified teachers still in the system. With the rise of tuition for such institutions and the fact that courts often undermine state initiatives for choice in education, which would allow lower and middle income families to receive state sponsored tuition assistance towards such schools, I wouldn’t call a man crazy if they suggested this was by design. I’m sure many feel as I do, that there is a concerted effort to create a new aristocracy and reduce the other 99% of the population to becoming a bunch of fucking Morlocks.