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Originally posted by Brandon Martus
Next time I'll just delete it, instead of moving it there for you... again.
Thanks.
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No need to thank anyone else, we all should be thanking you. Thank you, sir.
Other than that, I believe that most [high school] teachers have at least a little experience in the field in which they teach. Most of my high school teachers had/have degrees related to the subject they teach, which is really nice.
The great Eric Stokely, former coach of 258 and current coach of 360, had a story about the application process to become a physics teacher at Lincoln High School. Eric Stokely has a degree in nuclear physics, mind you, while the other two applicants (one was a lawyer, I can't quite remember what the occupation of the other was) were nowhere near as qualified, and had very little knowledge about the subject. This story was really eye-opening to me in that it showed me that it's possible to have a teacher who does not know anything about what they teach, practically (though for something like english or possibly math, it's possible to just read out of the book, and have it not matter the experience of the teacher).
Another story comes from the well known college student, 'round these here parts, named Ken Leung. I interviewed him for a school project, and he mentioned the fact that in Hong Kong (where he grew up) many of the teacher have no idea what they're teaching, and that American teachers apparently have much more knowledge about their specific subjects.
Werd.