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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m all about this.  Injecting some teachers with actual subject matter expertise will be great for kids.[/quote]

The best MS/HS teachers that my kids had were second career teachers with real world experience and subject matter expertise.  Frankly, many of them were more passionate than some burnt-out career educators.  [/quote]

You must have gone to school during a different time.  I am a "real world expert" that transitioned to teaching, and the first thing I learned was that I wasn't even allowed to teach anything real.  Teachers have to stick to the boring, inaccurate, dumbed-down curriculum from the state and county, and they can't say one word outside of it.  Moreover, they usually have to teach to some test.  There is no autonomy in teaching anymore.  So a real world expert will quickly be disillusioned when they see that what they will be forced to teach isn't even what they actually know from the real field they worked in.[/quote]

Perhaps you just weren’t cut out for teaching, or maybe the teachers my kids have aren’t “world experts” like you.  My kids are current HS students/recent graduates and some of all of their best teachers are teaching as their second career. Don’t know if this is a universal truth, but it’s true for my 3 kids. [/quote]

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