[metmom]

But there are also teachers who don't belong teaching either.

In Buffalo every few years, the teachers are required to take proficiency tests that the high school students are required to pass to graduate from high school and the teachers fail them at an alarming rate. Of course, there is a hue and cry from the teachers unions but it is embarrassing nevertheless.

[mountn man]

I had a teacher in Jr.High who almost everybody disliked. Her nickname was Bigbird. About 15 years later, a friend of mine had her first teaching job at the same Jr. Hi. She told me of a teacher who talked negatively about students all the time during breaks in the teachers lounge. She didn't think that any students liked this teacher. And she thought that this teacher should just retire. Yes, it was Bigbird.

Bigbird might have had the knowledge to teach. She might have known the mechanics to teach. But she lacked the passion or desire to teach. How can someone teach another, if they don't respect or love the other?