“And of course the classroom teachers are blamed.”
University education departments are pitiful. As one might expect, my children’s teachers are intellectual pygmies.
I should have kept a log of falsehoods my kids have been taught. My daughter recently brought home a handout asserting that English is a Romance language.
She is the only one in her science class who can actually utter the words “deoxyribonucleic acid” when asked what the acronym “DNA” stands for.
It is regrettable that I am not able to home school. I try to compensate both by supplementing the curriculum and contradicting great swaths of it.
> University education departments are pitiful. <
Agreed. And people with PhD’s in education are worse than useless. They are actually counterproductive.
But there’s an easy solution. Simply eliminate all education departments. You want to teach, say, math? Get a degree in math, then student teach with a master teacher.
As I noted earlier, I taught for many years in an urban high school. About half the teachers there - including me - had real degrees, not education degrees.