[Oldie]

Its not that they are "bad", its just that they are incompetent.

It is interesting to observe how decline of primary and high school education in the US parallels the professionalization of education. Schools of education typically attract students with lower high school GPA and lower SAT scores than other schools within our universities, and at the same time GPA upon graduation is much higher for education majors than for graduates from any other field. The reasons for this are rather complex, but the bottom line is that this is all tied to relaxed standards within schools of education. I have been a professor in various American Universities for twenty years now, and I have never even met an education major that I would consider to be a competent student.

[Alberta's Child]

That pretty much reinforces what I've been saying about American education for some time now. The problem isn't that our kids aren't being educated -- the problem is that our kids aren't being educated and we're paying a lot of money in the process. We've turned "education" into nothing more than day care, but we still insist on paying people as if they are educators.

[ostephani]

I am a teacher. Graduated in 99--Cum Laude--from Baylor University. Double major--Math and English. No easy feat with 5 children at home to raise.