09-11-2014, 06:04 PM
Paul F. wrote:
And yes, it's frightening the level of ignorance SOME new teachers graduate with...
Even the bottom 1/4 of every graduating class of new teachers get jobs and end up teaching kids - and some of them ARE downright scary-ignorant!
Not a new phenomenon.
I had a Current World History teacher back in junior high school (about a hundred years ago) who couldn't identify the then head of the UN during a discussion about the organization (many of the students did know.)