[TASMANIANRED]

Those subjects have largely gone away in their pure form.

This starts me on another rant.

Schools of education and the teachers unions have been the down fall of public education.

In my day and probably yours as well, High school subjects were taught by Math Majors, Chemistry Majors, History Majors.

Today the degree is in education..They study how to teach rather than knowing depth of the subject. They may incidentally have a secondary degree in their field but that is the exception not the rule.

Schools of education are the bottom of the barrel, They start with students with the lowest SAT's and then they suck up indoctrination .

They piss and moan about teaching to standards because they themselves can not test to standards.

Environmentalism is definitely taught in high school as they push hard sciences out of the way for indoctrination.
I have a sister in law that is a social studies teacher. She doesn't teach she baby sits and then complains that she isn't paid what she is worth.

[King Prout]

this started during the Korean War.

care to guess why?

[metmom]

The problem with unqualified teachers is that to teach you have to have a *teaching* degree. If you have a regular degree in an area that would get you a job in the real world, you won't be allowed to teach because it's not an *teaching* degree so you're not qualified to teach.

College profs could not teach in public schools in NY, at least, because they don't have a 4 years *teaching* degree with masters in education, but they are qualified to teach the college education majors. IOW, the profs can teach the future teachers but not the students those teachers will be teaching. And an education degree is totally useless outside the education field. Liberal logic makes my brain smoke.