[Aevery_Freeman]

That's precisely what the teacher competency test, the PPST, I took (and passed) was designed to do.

Now we have a critical shortage of teachers.

Coincidence?

[lepton]

In my experience, the shortage of teachers isn’t a lack of graduate Education Majors, but a lack of willingness to deal with the combination of school administrations and unions, discipline issues, and the internal politics of the schools.