“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?
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.