abaya

Yep--thanks for representin' Owl. Personally, my teacher certification program required 60 quarter credits in Secondary Education methods and theory, and none of those went to my major, which was English (also required about 60 quarter credits--including a required seminar entirely on Shakespeare). Additionally, we had to get another endorsement, so I minored in History and took enough extra courses to be able to teach that as well.

So I'm not sure where this idea of someone who doesn't know what they're doing is a valid one--nor is it fair to say that because teachers get paid so low (for their level of education) that it somehow reduces their quality. In fact, I think that *because* they teach for so little, they should earn more of our respect. It's sad that teachers don't get paid as much as, say, engineers... I think teachers' jobs are just as important, if not more so, and they sure as hell work the same long hours (I was around 50-60 hours a week when I was teaching). It always puzzles me, why teachers' salaries are so low... it shows you the priorities of our society, in many ways.

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