[ren_engineer]

all the best teachers I had in public school were people who got into teaching after having an actual career because they had actually lived in the real world. Most of the "teaching" is just stuff mandated by the government and taught via lesson plans created by the book companies.

another issue is that teachers get promoted based on years in the system or by getting more useless degrees, rather than on how well they actually teach their students

[pard68]

Now that you mention it, my best teachers were all men who made careers for themselves in the military before retiring and going into education.