I feel like that is really a disgrace for us to send in these unqualified people, plus it only hurts the students. It's one thing to tutor or to supplement, but to teach? and at the highschool level too.
I remember an old Cosby Show were one of the kids was in like third grad and he asked what kind of job they thought they could get if they dropped out of school (I think it was Rudy, but that's not the point, anyhow).
Well she said I could always teach second grade, I've already down everything they are gonna do in there, it was funny back then, but in reality that is almost what they are doing.
Think about it, alot of people decide to not take calculus or advanced chemistry senior year of high schol, so that they will have an easy class load. They go to college and their major only reqiures one math class, so they take basic colleg algebra, and they then turn around and try to teach what they learned two years ago while they were taking that same class.....ridiculous!
We have to do something to support our teachers. there are many people who love to teach and would love to do it for life, but in reality they know that they can't raise a family on the mere 22-24,000 dollars teachers start off at.
The children they are teaching are our future leaders, we can't let them down like this.
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