A
friend recently pointed me to a blog written by a teacher who is going through
the same things I have been talking about; unfortunately, what is disturbing
are the comments left on one of the posts, supposedly by other teachers.
This
makes me wonder if part of the problem, even a majority of the problem, are
those who enter the teaching profession who are simply not suited to teaching,
who don’t have the skills and drive to really do the job well. Whether this is
on a personal level or a matter of never receiving the proper education to be
versed in what goes into teaching I don’t know. Regardless, it points to a bad
moon rising.
I
can well understand, after reading some of these comments, why there is a great
concern over the quality of teachers. There should be some way to insure that
teachers are truly qualified to do what they do, but I think that testing and
other measure are not the proper way.
I think a market
solution is the answer. To that I mean that teachers should be paid more. If
teachers were paid a higher salary, a better quality of people would naturally
gravitate towards the profession and elevate to its proper place.