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‘Math Teachers Flunk Math Exams’ (2018)

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“Waddaya mean, they don’t know math? I taught it to ’em, didn’t I?”

While we’re on the subject of public education, do you think it’s unreasonable to expect the classroom teacher to know more than her students? Like, if you were teaching fifth-grade math, should you be expected to know, say, high-school-level math?

Math Teachers Flunk Math Exams

I post this item now and then because it rather appalled me, in 2018, that so many math teachers were flunking their math exams. Never mind “Those who can’t do, teach”–have you looked at teacher salaries lately? Teachers’ union contracts? We’re paying a fortune for this mess.

What gets me is that whole idea that parents aren’t “qualified” to school their children at home. I’m sure I could flunk a math test with the best of them.

‘Math Teachers Flunk Math Exams’ (2018)

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So… 2,400 prospective math teachers in North Carolina flunked the math test that they needed to pass to get their teaching licenses.

Math Teachers Flunk Math Exams

I’ve been to teachers’ college. It’s a hoop they jump through, nothing more… although these days it has taken on more sinister overtones.

Should math teachers know more math than the kids they’re “teaching”? Like, if you’re teaching first grade, you should only have to know what the average 5-year-old would know?

Is the test too hard? Should they redesign it so that a first-grader can pass it?

Public education: Pay more, get less.

‘Math Teachers Flunk Math Exams’ (2018)

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Would you believe it? Public school teachers complained about being expected to know more than their students–not fair, not fair!

They gave this standardized math test and lot of math teachers failed it.

Math Teachers Flunk Math Exams

For what we’re paying for these schools–a fortune!–we should at least get teachers who know more than the students. Why should any kid have to sit there listening to a teacher who knows no more than he does?

Granted, tests that concentrate on mere memorization are probably limited as an evaluation tool. But gee!

Y’know what’d make a great experiment (not that anyone would dare to do it)? Give the kids the same test that their teachers failed, and see if they do better.

Go ahead, educators–I dare you. Double-dog, triple-dog dare you!