Charter school teachers are highly qualified
There’s nothing quite like pouncing on a hot topic right out of the gate.
Besides, what better way for you to get to know me and how my charter school favoring mind thinks, than to throw you straight into the whirl-wind of charter school debates.
You see yesterday I posted a little column on my Examiner page called “Parental view of charter schools.” I had no idea that this would offend someone and a firestorm of debates broke out.
Who came to defend the honor of charter schools against the self-proclaimed charter critic?—Parents and teachers.
Inspired by the event I created a list of teachers I’d like to teach my kids, a “dream team,” if you will.
This list will help us answer a key question raised by many o’ critics: Are charter school teachers qualified?
Reading: Oprah Winfrey (Tennessee State University—speech and performing arts)
Writing: Charles Dickens (Rome Dame School in Chatham, Clover Lane Academy, Wellington House Academy, continued self education by employment)
Math: Albert Einstein (Luitpold Gymnasium, Eidgenössische Polytechnische Schule , Einstein was a teacher at Princeton University and a union member. He did not hold a Colorado Teacher’s License. Would Einstein, like our Air Force Academy Professor, not be able to teach K-12 district schools?)
Science: Sir Isaac Newton (Free Grammar school, studied law at Trinity College Cambridge)
History: Jesus of Nazareth (Taught in a temple. He knew the past and the future. Does this make a qualified teacher?)
Rhetoric and political science: President Obama (fill this in with the US president of choice, most who are well educated on the topic, but do not hold teaching degrees)
Art: Georgia O’Keefe (Chatham Protestant Episcopal Institute in Williamsburg, Art Institute of Chicago, Art Students League in New York).
Music: Herbie Hancock (famous pianist)
What do these teachers have in common? With the education pedigrees these individuals possess, they would be more likely to be hired in a charter school than a district k-12 school.
Does that mean the persons on the list above are “unqualified as teachers?”
With Jesus Christ, the ultimate teacher and counselor, on the list—one would say no.
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