"Deciding you want to home school does not make one an efficient effective teacher."
Deciding you want to be a Publik skooL teecher duz not make one an effishent effective teecher neither.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/517752/posts
"The Sun-Times found that teachers who struggled to pass their exams can pop up anywhere. Last school year, those who needed at least four tries to pass a single certification test were teaching children in a North Shore junior high, a Palatine special-education classroom and a Hoffman Estates high school.
But the state's neediest children--those in the lowest-scoring, highest-minority and highest-poverty schools--are roughly five times more likely to encounter teachers who stumbled in efforts to pass the tests. And Chicago public school students are 3-1/2 times more likely than suburban ones to have such a teacher."
Didn't you say you were from Illinois? Maybe you should become a teacher?
The article you posted is a valid example of some of the problems faced by the public school system in Chicago. But the reality is it is very difficult to get qualified teachers to come to the central city because of the idiot parents and criminality they have to deal with. The inundation of welfare dependent children makes it difficult to find schools with sufficient discipline to allow children to get an education.
If I were a teacher someone would probably get killed and it might be me because I wouldn't put up with any crap from kids just as I wouldn't with my boys. They would have to increase the pay to six figures before I would even consider it. I see Barb work all weekend and come home exhausted at seven and am too lazy to do the same. And my late wife, who had the energy of a dynamo, did the same. I don't have that much love to do it.