is that so many of them enter the field with no life experience.
I have a couple of high school classmates that became teachers. The graduated from high school, went to a neaarby college and returned to teach in the same school they left four or five years ago.
My public schooling started in the mid 50s through D-Day, 1969 when I graduated from high school. An awful lot of my teachers brought some damned good life experience in with them courtesy of WW2. Virtually all of the men teaching were veterans that had gotten their education through the GI bill.
Before the GI Bill college was but a dream for many of these guys. I had a cousin that decided he wanted to be a math teacher when he heard he was going to be eligible for education. He was looking forward to it until a Japanese soldier on Iwo Jima ended his dreams and his life. Still, an awful lot of GIs took advantage of the GI Bill.
The couple that didn't serve spent time doing other things and learned a little about life. Some of the woman entered teaching later on in life and brought their experiences into the classroom. They were not too bad for the most part.
Still, I had a number of inexperienced idiots to suffer through. Mainly women but I did get a guy fresh out of school that was a jerk. I did suffer through one teacher that was completely out of her league and bored me to tears with her nice little naive attitude. She really didn't seem to have a whole lot of respect for people that were not headed to college.
The point is that too few teachers bring any real world experience with them into the classroom. There is an exception, however.
Vo-Tech schools hire a lot of people that may be a little short on college credit but have years of hands on experience in their specialty. These are the guys that bring a LOT of savvy into the classroom. Many of them either are or have run their own businesses in their field. At the least they have worked in the trade for a number of years and know what they are doing.
Personally in Piccolo's world I would not hire a teacher for at least six or seven years until they have graduated from college to insure that they did something else beforehand. I'd also insist that they lived on their own also. Living in Mom's basement gives a person nothing to bring into the classroom with them.
I want to see teachers with both an academic education and at least a partial education in life itself. What we have degenerated to is a bunch of college idiots with no sense of life teaching the kids the twisted values they learned in college.
Five or six years in the REAL work force will educate the educators.
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