WGU Master in Education - Review

[wow]

That’s weird—what you’re doing to your children. Letting people without any proper pedagogical training work as teachers shows the utmost disrespect for education and for the students IMHO.

Yes, well, that's a whole thing in the United States. Perhaps you are familiar with the current administration and its absolute loathing of expertise? If not, be glad you aren't familiar with it, and don't be condescending to Americans who had no role in making the educational system this way and are just explaining how it works here. It's not a good look.

[nykorn]

That’s weird—what you’re doing to your children. Letting people without any proper pedagogical training work as teachers shows the utmost disrespect for education and for the students IMHO.

Many countries do this, not just the USA. The alternative is to simply not have teachers, so you would get 60 or 100 kids in one classroom, and you would have entire schools shutting down because they can't find teaching staff. I agree that it's not ideal and that there are better ways to solve the teacher shortage, or better ways to train prospective teachers. However there is no way for a normal person to convince the state or national government to change this. It's true that the American government doesn't seem to value education -- if they did, education would be free, and they would base it off the education systems of the most highly educated countries in the world.

Keep in mind that in America there are also a lot of other fields unrelated to teaching, which require Bachelor's or Master's degrees in Europe but which only require high school graduation and/or work experience in America.

Also in many places in America parents can just homeschool their kids instead of having any qualified teacher teach them at all.

[Maltus]

Oh I'm sorry - with "you" i didn't mean anyone personal here. But you are right: Education has always been a source of profit in most US-states, I guess. I have been in education politics for 15 years and I was always shocked, when american collegues told me, what teachers in the US earn.

Maybe we should go BTT and discuss the Master's programm again - we won't solve the problem in this thread.:-)