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A nonsensical majority on the Indiana State Board of Education has demeaned, devalued, and insulted every professional educator in the state of Indiana. Six of the eleven members of the State BOE believe that anyone with a college degree can be a teacher.
These people apparently don’t care that good teachers should be well-trained professionals. To them, subject area knowledge is all that matters.
On May 14th, the State Board of Education in a close 6-5 vote made a fundamental error in lowering the standards teachers for a teaching license in Indiana. Indiana doesn’t need lower standards for teachers.
If the adopted rules are allowed to remain anyone with a college degree could get “on-the-job-training” in a classroom with 25, 30 or even 40 students.
Andrea Neal, one of the members of the board supporting the rule, said,
A very experienced educator served as my mentor…I’m not a licensed teacher. That obviously colors my view on this but some of the best teachers I know are not licensed teachers. I’m not inclined to change my mind.
Note, however, that Ms. Neal is not a public school teacher. She teaches in a private school…a school which can pick and choose its students…a school which can throw out disruptive or “difficult to educate” students…a school in which a “very experienced educator” had the time needed to mentor someone with no More Nonsense | Live Long and Prosper: