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Originally Posted by BobR  I don't know about elsewhere, but most teacher credentialing programs in America are nothing more than useless garbage designed to protect the teacher's unions and lifetime teachers from equally capable and educated competition. Time consuming but useless garbage, but particularly in an economic downturn when many educated people are out of work, it keeps the worthless union teachers from being fired. |
I got my teaching credential in Elementary Ed from San Francisco State University. the program was excellent but...my first full time job was a Band teacher in a ghetto school. I was bitten by snakes and wolves on a daily basis, but I survived...mostly because I dazzled them with brillance.
Our school Salsa group performed for the All-City festival and knocked them out...the Latino wannabe gangbanger teenage musicians called the Superintent an asshole and told him to fuck off when they sat down in reserved seats and he kicked them out. They all got suspended the following week. very funny. We were heros to the whole school. After that it was easy. I had a group of teens who said:"Do not mess with the Band teacher or you will get it after school."
