Years back I did some service work on equipment in CPS.
A school on the NW side, a nice area.
They said the room is being used but it is ok for me to work if I do not disturb the class.
May have been ESL(?). The teacher reads, then individual students pick up, back and forth. The teacher was an older black woman, the kids loved her.
It was a pleasant experience!
Later in the main office, the assistant principal is SCREAMING wildly at this unfortunate student demanding that he only speak English!!!
That made my blood boil.
I know the best and the brightest are not attracted to teaching, and I know that teaching — if done correctly — is a lot of work. But to have teachers who cannot teach effectively, or who haven’t mastered their discipline, or who are just ignorant of what should be considered general knowledge, shouldn’t be accepted. Maybe the governor would have been more accurate in saying that a lot of teachers are not completely educated themselves, and not completely competent.