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Homeschooling parents are the definition of an enthusiastic amateur. They regulalry outperform uncaring teachers

A person teaching one or two students to whom she is related (usually in a loving way) is not comparable to a person teaching 25 to 30 students in one room, usually teaching five different such groups every day.

Perhaps more qualified people would go into teaching if they were not so often denigrated by those who have usually not spent even a day teaching in a regular classroom.

"Perhaps more qualified people would go into teaching if they were not so often denigrated by those who have usually not spent even a day teaching in a regular classroom."

With all due respect, I spent five years in a classroom, teaching, on the college level. Despite being an adjunct, I was the highest rated instructor in my department. The other instructors sent problem students to me because I would straighten them out.

Then, in an effort to increase the "professionalism" of Community College instructors, the accreditation board changed the requirements for teaching from a Master's Degree to a Master's Degree with 15 hours in the subject being taught (computer science). I had nine hours postgraduate in Comp Sci -- as well as 20 years in industry (but that did not count). So I was no longer "qualified" to teach.

Further, a few years later, when a school district needed someone to teach computer science on the High School level -- which I could do quite easily -- I again was not "qualified" because I did not have the teaching certificate. Instead two English teachers -- who prior to that year had NEVER touched a computer . . . but were qualified because, you see they HAD teaching certificates -- taught those classes.

How do I know? Because I tutored those teachers on the computer (I did not need to be qualified for that). So the school district ended up paying for their salaries (even though they did not know a mouse from a keyboard) as well as my tutoring rate (and I stuck it to the District, too -- why not?) instead of hiring me to teach a class I was capable of teaching at a much lower teacher's salary.

If that makes sense to you, I guess that is why you are an educator and I am not. But, yeah -- I have taught 30 to 40 people, and it ain't rocket science. In fact, the Armed Forces can turn out an instructor that can outperform most K-12 public school teachers I know with three months training.

Perhaps more qualified people would go into teaching if there were not the silly barriers to entry that exist in a trade that is pretending to be a profession.