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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can vouch for the fact that many of the teachers are nysmith do not have degrees. And they have no business having anything to do with children! It’s a very dangerous place to send your kid. I will always have guilt over sending my children there even though it was a short period of time.[/quote]

This is a ridiculous take. Every teacher at Nysmith has a degree. Some, not all, have teaching certifications, but having a teaching certification is immaterial to the question of whether or not one is a good teacher.

Nysmith has historically exceptional retention rates among both students and staff and a damn near spotless record for its nearly 40 year history. This is a troubling episode, to be sure, but let’s not pretend as though it’s somehow dangerous when you have literally tens of thousands of satisfied customers over their history whose kids have gone on to incredible outcomes.

And yes, middle schoolers are old enough to learn about the Holocaust at a surface level and do projects that force them to learn about terrible people. It’s part of how they hopefully learn not to be terrible people themselves.[/quote]

Yes, there are people born to be teachers who could probably do it without the certification, but most people need some training in how to think developmentally and adapt assignments. It's not about being old enough to learn it, it's about teaching all of this in a way that is appropriate for the cognitive abilities/critical thinking skills of the class you have and knowing how to adapt assignments. Having a degree in English does not mean you know how to teach it to middle schoolers with a range of abilities. I suspect some kids in the class are gifted in English, and others are there because they are gifted in Math and Science only. You have to adjust assignments and be proactive.[/quote]

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