Originally Posted by
Kaleredar
This, children, is an example of the Dunning-Kruger effect. Someone who knows very little, convinced that they know a lot, because their ignorance of the subject has convinced them that it's very easy.
First, in order to teach... any grade, you need a bachelor's degree. So that's four years of college education, potentially five, right there at least... and no, not taking underwater basket weaving for four years, taking actual, specific teaching courses. Plus the monetary requirements required to fund it. And some states require additional certifications for teaching on top of that. Then, you have to student teach for at least half a semester. Then... maybe you can get hired as a teacher, potentially at a school some distance from you, and not even necessarily the one you student-taught at.
You think you show up to the little red schoolhouse with a nice outfit on, tell them you can teach multiplication tables and they give you a classroom of 25 first graders right then and there? Lemme guess, kids these days just need to pound the pavement and stop buying ipods and avacado toast if they wanna afford a house, right? Just because you might have had a drunken lout they picked off the street that would oggle the junior girls as a woodshop teacher when you were in highschool doesn't mean that kind of thing flies anymore.
And whether you think people should be able to waltz on in to a school, demonstrate that they know a few basic facts, and then be made a teacher... well, doesn't make it so.