rickheel Wrote:So Sister Mary Holy Water told you what not to do too? :laugh:
There weren't any nuns at my school, only priests and civilian teachers. To get a job teaching there you had to have at least a master's degree in your field. A history teacher, for example, had to possess at least an M.A. in history. This differentiates from the public schools in many ways. In a public school, one teaching history probably has the bare minimum of a bachelor's degree in education (BAE), and in some of the poorer schools, they'll hire anyone off the street who can pass a drug test to teach history, i.e. football coaches.
Same deal with the sciences, mostly taught by the few priests at my school. Math was also taught by Jesuit priests (the Jesuits have a tradition of education that goes back to their founding as an order circa 1550).
In the public schools, however, any focker with a B.S.E. (bachelor of science, education) teaches chemistry and ninth grade physical science. Similar to math teachers who've taken the school of education route. They might have had about six math classes in college other than the two core math classes like college algebra and trig. But this is the general trend, there are some differences depending on a locality's school district and their hiring practices (enter political squabbling over funding here :drink: ).
No wonder the Japanese and Chinese are running circles around the creme-de-le-creme of American "scientists."
The Jesuits have a no-holds barred philosophy to education. You get what you pay for and the Catholics oftentimes award scholarships to their employee's kids, as they did my brother and me. The Jesuits taught me everything and provided me with the correct foundation for college, or the "real" world. Perhaps that is why I lost my religion the moment I left that school. Anyway, I wouldn't trade it for any experience in the world. I loved that school regardless of all the bitching I did while I was there! :laugh:
Point of post: public education, for the most part, sucks! If I had kids, they'd go to a Jesuit school or I'd home school. Forget all that poorly funded propaganda thrown at youngsters at the local school district!!