I'm in the process of recuperating from the root canal and Tilda is a little under the weather. She had a vomit session last night that had us changing the sheets.
As a PhD student (or rather I am a PhD student because), I have strong feelings on education. I believe a good deal of societal woes would be lessened if we all had a love for learning. I do think education is the number one issue in this country and I philosophically support educators, just on principle. Arizona though in its going-nazi phase is apparently saying that people with 'accents' can not teach English (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/30/arizona-ethnic-studies-cl_n_558731.html). We (and by we I mean Arizona) do not however expect Mrs Smith, our rhetorical curmudgeonly 4th grade math teacher, to be a mathematician. We probably do not even expect that she took calculus. I don't know teacher regulations and will not pretend to. But, I would guess that 4th grade math teachers in Arizona would not know how to calculate the derivative of the slippery curve of a slope that the Grand Canyon state is currently trudging up. So why do we let them teach math? Because they don't have an accent?
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