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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do see the math hirings in some private schools and the teachers do not even have a math background. Very strange.[/quote]

Not strange at all.

Not all privates hire accredited teachers. Not required[/quote]

[b]Give the tuition I would have expect some quality control.[/b][/quote]

Do you not understand that despite the tuition you pay, private school teacher salaries are generally much lower than public, with limited benefits and no job security?  Do you really not get that?  As much as you want to believe that the best teachers will happily forego the much stronger salary, benefits, and job security they could get at a top-performing public just for the privilege of teaching your special darling, the fact is that, for the most part, low pay + poor benefits usually = weaker candidates.

Cue the posters who will now chime in to say that they know some excellent teachers at their private who are happy to work for poverty-level wages because they have fmaily money or a wealthy spouse.  Sure, that's great, but that's not the majority of teachers at privates.

I wonder what would happen if a private school offered significantly MORE, not less, what publics offer, with strong benefits?  Like, just as an experiment.  What if they offered wages and packages so competitive that people with math backgrounds would realistically consider teaching on those grounds alone? 
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