>Parents, other teachers, and students are perfectly able to assess
>the capabilities of a teacher. Enroll your child in any school and
>start asking around about who the good teachers are, and you will
>get a pretty consistent list of names. Joanna
That hasn't been my experience. Like they say in Hollywood, nobody knows anything. The best teacher my daughter had so far was a woman with a newborn. I think that contributed to her being more relaxed on the job, at least for that year, and that counts for a lot in elementary school.
Matt wrote:
>Where exactly are all these excellent-teachers-in-waiting right now?
>Working on Wall Street?
For decades education in the U.S. depended on exploitation of women so the teaching profession did attract talented people who would likely have been doing something else if they could have.