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Are there problems amongst the teaching profession? Sure, but so are there across all professions.

But in other professions, there is accountability. In teaching there is very little accountability because performance is never measured and standards are always discounted.

But in other professions, there is accountability. In teaching there is very little accountability because performance is never measured and standards are always discounted. Not necesarilly true. My US History students had to take an End of Instruction test. If they preform poorly on it, and that occurs often enough, I WILL find myself in the unemployment line. Why? Cause the school risks getting shut down if test scores are consistantly low. That's how it is here in Oklahoma. I can't speak for other states. As far as accountability in other professions. Sure there is, to a degree. As far as the legal profession in OK, one must graduate law school, pass the bar, and then do 12 hours of continueing legal education a year. Great, it still doesn't weed out people that have no business practicing law. I saw a kid get convicted of a crime simply because his attorney had no clue how to defend him. Guess what? That person is still practicing criminal law today.

"But in other professions, there is accountability. In teaching there is very little accountability because performance is never measured and standards are always discounted."

Well said! I have a siste-in-law who is a grade school teacher in California. She consistently brags about the days she takes off to go shopping and how she hasn't changed her lesson plans since she graduated from college (1972).

A few years ago she moved to California. She actually told me that at the interview for the teaching job that she now has she asked the interviewer "Whats the very least I can do in the job so as to not get fired"! And even with that stupid statement they hired her!