My teacher buddy told me that she was seeing them intern in her classrooms and they were as dumb as I described. She also said that few of them had a love for kids. They were people who went to college because they heard in high school over and over to go to college, go to college, go to college, because college gets you ahead, blah blah blah. But they had no career vision and, once in college, looked for an easy finish. That easy finish for a lot of them was to become a teacher.
Yes, true and I saw it first hand - teachers with degrees with “nothing else to do” as far as a career, and yes, some of them hated the kids. They are a disgrace to the profession.
Standards were vastly lowered over my career, basic testing of reading and writing skills for teachers eliminated, tests in one’s specific field, watered down completely b/c “too many minorities” were failing. By the time I left, four years ago, the latest crop of teachers were woefully inadequate - well versed in DEI ideology, lacking skills to either teach or understand their own field (secondary education) - one older retiring teacher told me “not a one of them is worth a damn.”
I wouldn’t go into teaching now and have discouraged the next generation of family from doing so. I am the last of a long line of educators all the way up to university level.
Journalism school is said to be easy, also.