This is the “Emergency Certified” Teacher Facebook group.
These people possibly have bachelor’s degrees, but in subjects completely unrelated to the subjects they will be teaching.
Common complaints are about the tests being too hard (they aren’t, you can memorize the questions on fucking quizlet).
My first year teaching I was pulled aside and told by my principal, “you actually have a degree in this, you’ll have to step in to help your team” - because the other science teachers were a Physical Education teacher and the schools secretary.
But no f-ggots allowed! Being a drag queen on the weekends disqualifies you to be a school principal now, no matter how good you were at it.
I know a guy who repairs HVAC systems. He has a high school diploma and a bunch of technical certs. Handy with math but everything else is OJT and training certs. He makes bank. Same with a plumber I know.
in the US, at least, higher ed is a way to funnel people into debt, the military, both, or (if they fail school but still get the debt) - poverty. something tells me it shouldn’t be this way, no one would design a system to operate this way if the goal was producing educated citizens.
I’m not cynical enough to buy the ‘schools are just prisons for kids man’ - between the shootings, overreaching bullshit (10 commandments, fear of woke etc.,) and absolute hell for teachers, I gotta wonder: who does all this garbage profit?
some conservatives want stupid voters, sure, but they also need skilled workers…
The issue is everyone in America should be educated up to a college degree level in core areas! Yes, absolutely we need more people going into the trades. But that doesn’t mean those people shouldn’t still have a college level understanding of math, reading, science, physical education, philosophy, health, history, sociology, and soooooo much more! We need to maximize the knowledge of Americans (of all people) if we are going to survive. Also that gives our younger people time to find themselves. In a perfect world you wouldn’t fully enter the work force until around 25 years old. Yes that late. Until then people should be exploring, learning, and practicing trades. Not grinding away the moment they are physically able to.