Here is my suggestion:
—Eliminate government schooling. We need complete separation of school and state.
In the meantime.....
I think **all** government K-12 teachers should be require to take Calculus 1, sitting the **same** classes ( elbow to elbow) with the science, math, and engineering students. Do all government teachers need Calculus to teach their subject. No! They don’t, but it would help assure two things 1) that hey they were smart enough to deserve a government paycheck and 2) It would help keep math phobics out of the schools.
In the meantime.....
All government teachers should be required to take the GED every 3 years. Most would fail the math portion.
Funny thing about that... Our son attended a private Catholic high school and gradated this year. The math teacher at that school who was not credentialed could not explain the
Calculus 1 AP work to him. My public school teacher wife taught him and a couple of his classmates Calculus at our kitchen table every night. The AP courses are college courses that the advanced kids can take in high school.
Wow a credentialed teacher and well educated mom taught her son college level math but is some how not intelligent enough to teach third grade. I think I hear another argument dissolving into a puddle of?????