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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd like to see a requirement that teachers score above the 75th percentile in both the verbal and quantitative sections of the GRE before they can be licensed.  You could set a lower percentile for the very lowest grades.

Teaching suffers as a profession because it is thought one doesn't have to be very smart to become one--witness the low bar for entering a school of education.

The profession has never recovered from the outflow of all the best and brightest women once they were able to join the work force as scientists, doctors, lawyers, and business executives and were no longer limited to just nursing, secretarial work, and teaching. [/quote]

NP here.  I'm a teacher and these sorts of predictable comments are always so infuriating.  I was Phi Beta Kappa at an Ivy, then went to Harvard for grad school.  I have never scored less than the 99th percentile on any standardized test I've ever taken going all the way back to the SAT.  Over my long career, I've taught in public and private schools in three states, and my colleagues have almost all been highly educated--at least as educated as my friends in other professional fields.  Sure, this is anecdotal, but MANY, MANY teachers are extremely intelligent and highly educated.  This sort of disdain is unhelpful.
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Thank you for being a teacher. I apppreciate teachers. The pp who became a dr has very valid points. I could never be a teavher or a doctor.[/quote]

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