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Originally Posted by Grapesoda
in the US my understanding is teachers standard have been lowered several times to accommodate 'the less gifted intellect' to teach
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It can vary from state to state, but for the most part you have to get a teaching certificate, which basically means you took certain classes, passed them and passed a test. Getting a job can vary in degrees of difficulty as well. Good school tend to be harder to get into so the lesser experienced teachers tend to end up shitty schools.
In the end, being a teacher now (ever since No Child Left Behind) is more about teaching your kids to pass the standardized tests than anything else. The best teachers in the world aren't going to do very well if they are forced to teach a shitty curriculum.
In other countries (like Finland) the decisions about education and how it should be run are left to educators and people who have devoted their lives to education. Here it is in the hands of politicians.