[68skylark]

I don't know how it is in Australia, but in the U.S. we have teacher union rules that prevent those with math and science backgrounds from teaching in public schools. (Public school teachers have to major in "education" in college, with a mind-numbing course of study that chases away most people who have intellectual talent and drive.)

Then, when the results aren't good, the teacher unions say we need to pay the (unqualified) teachers more money.

It's an amazing scam on the taxpayer, and one that never fails to work.

[VOA]

I don't know how it is in Australia, but in the U.S. we have teacher
union rules that prevent those with math and science backgrounds from
teaching in public schools.

Yep. I heard an hour on Wiliam Bennett's radio show in which a
string of science majors related how bureaucracy/union rules had
kept them from doing any teaching in public schools.

IIRC, another Freeper on a thread on this topic recalled that
a physics prof at GA Tech that had lectured to overflow classes
for years had volunteered to teach some classes in public schools
gratis.

Yea, he got turned down cold.