imho if teacher hiring was NJ's only problem it would be in pretty good shape. This U.S. educationstinks myth is another one of my pet peeves.
I don’t understand “education stinks myth”.
My children describe getting higher grades for bringing in cans for food drives, and one teacher who openly stated that your grade was dependent on behavior in the classroom as opposed to any test results. Public education is a disaster; look at California giving high school diplomas out to people who couldn’t qualify for them. In the past that was reserved for blacks & Hispanics (social promotion); now it is universal.
Well you are living in Panama.
Here in the states we are not getting our monies worth and most of many school budgets support retired teachers who have fat contracts.
There are terrific teachers. The system is poisonous.
Myth or not, Common Core will fix it all. We've been doing math wrong all throughout history. /s
I was in HS in the mid-60s in small town rural America. Even back then and there, the unqualified were hired as teachers to fulfill the minority quota hiring mandates.