What Makes People Think They Are Qualified To Teach Their Own Kids?

[roguevalley]

220. I applaud parents that help. That is key but it doesn't make you 'qualified' to be a teacher

It makes you a good parent. I don't think people understand how technical this profession is and how you only get better with the job.

Try doing what you do for your son with this configuration:

1 high functioning autistic girl
2 juvenile delinquent boys with police records
ten kids sub grade level ranging from first through third grade levels of reading and math
five kids functioning at grade level
seven kids who are certified special education all manner of disabilities

That was just ONE year for me.

I got every manner of kids up to 36 at a time and I had to teach each of them as an individual. That didn't count the disruptors that were 'mainstreamed' into my class and ate up my life and the children who managed themselves.

You aren't qualified to be a teacher because you are excellent with your son. He is one child. One. I am SICK of people who feel that they would be awesome in the classroom and even though they never had four years of college to be a teacher and ONE DAY in public school trying to teach that somehow they are 'qualified'. You said that you were but you weren't 'temperamentally' suited. I am not aware that you have a teaching degree, a credential to teach and even one day in a classroom like the rest of us.

You may feel that you are a friend of public schools but your comments don't show that to me. You don't, and correct me if I'm wrong, have a degree, a credential or a day of experience in the job but you feel as qualified as any teacher by your own confession. You are part of the problem for us who are being NUKED day and night by people who feel the same way, have nothing to back it up but the idea they were in fifth grade once so they 'know' teaching and are just as 'qualified' as anyone who has given their life to the profession.

I didn't attack parents in my statement. You make a lot of assumptions about success and failure. Amazing. YOU ARE NOT QUALIFIED TO BE A TEACHER! You have one kid who you help. You are part of the ultimate outcome of responsibility for your child but the teacher in the end makes the biggest effort. They have your kid all day long. YOU do not have the same responsibility as the teacher and you are not their equal. Besides, I could put every kid handed to me into Harvard on a scholarship if I had ONE TO TEACH. But I had never less than 25 and often as many as 36. No, you are not as qualified as me and my colleagues. But if you want to feel that way knock yourself out.

You do not understand the insult you are implying to me and my colleagues at all. and no, teachers wouldn't lay that failure of your boy at your feet. we all know that it takes a lot more than that.