“Reading on a fifth to eighth grade level is an adult level of reading. It’s enough to read a newspaper. It’s enough to read furniture assembly instructions. It’s more than enough to become a gym teacher or coach your respective sport. Heck, it’s enough to teach fifth grade.”
How can it be enough to teach fifth grade? It’s not enough to get into college, let alone graduate with a degree! If that level of reading was enough, we could let sixth graders teach the fifth graders and dispense with the teachers.
Alright. Fourth grade teachers. And yes, I suspect there are elementary school teachers who don't read much past a fifth grade level, let alone an eighth grade one.
Nowadays gym teachers need a B.A./B.S., and, in many states, a teacher's credential as well, just to be a "gym teacher." Personal experience.
This is for public schools as private schools can do what they want.
To coach at the college level an M.A./M.S is SUPPOSED to be an eventuality. The coaching jobs are just too visible and desirable to be anything less.
Things didn't USED to be that way.
The desirability of the public schools comes into play when PENSIONS do. No one cares before that time. In theory, the public schools will always have state funds, as private schools won't.
Just like homeschooling.
Oh, yeah. Not really. Homeschooling sixth-graders read at a 12th-grade level.
“If that level of reading was enough, we could let sixth graders teach the fifth graders and dispense with the teachers.”
I can’t see why a 12th grader couldn’t be teaching 5th grade.
Overpaid babysitters working a part-time job.