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A “bar exam” for teachers is an elitist idea for denigrating homeschoolers.
As matters stand already, there is no dearth of highly educated people who don’t make what teachers do, and can’t get a teacher’s job without taking brain-killing “education” courses. And there’s gonna be a lot more of them, when Obama gets through RIFing the military. Staffing security with courageous veterans who know how to respect, and use, firearms would be no problem if the pedagogy business weren’t unionized and teaching positions weren’t political plums.

Years ago my child came to me with a problem. A math question on a test had been marked wrong when the answer was correct. The simple request was that I speak to the teacher and get the test score corrected. I agreed. This first ‘error’ in an otherwise perfect run of flawless test grades seemed a big deal to my young child.

I thought it would be easy - and fun to meet the teacher anyhow. I was wrong.

The math problem was simple division with a remainder. I went to the classroom - explained in a light manner what the problem was... out of the blue the teacher took offense. She said the answer on the test was wrong. It wasn't. I asked her to explain. She showed me the answers in the back of the arithmetic book - where she had taken the test questions from... She looked at me with dead angry eyes and asked if I thought I was smarter than the people who wrote the book. I said it was a misprint - and started to explain. That angered her more.

It was my first brush with a ‘union goon teacher’. She was defensive because ( as I found out later ) other parents had also complained about things like letters sent home with spelling errors... etc.

She stayed on as a ‘teacher’ and I started on my path becoming a conservative... A bad teacher's like being mugged - a recruiting tool for Republicans..