Am watching the Five and they just had a segment on the teacher shortage and Magoo’s morons are apoplectic about messing with the teacher unions monopoly and I guess his ignorant wife has a lot to do with it. DeSantis wants to let degreed veterans and first responders teach without going through certification and the left is going crazy.

Now first let’s consider the nonsense. As you know I have three degrees and nine years college education. Not a single course was taught by anyone with teaching credentials. I even taught in law school and I don’t have teaching credentials and so I guess all my education should be considered invalid because it wasn’t approved by some teachers union.

Next let me reiterate that anyone who graduated from high school with a C average could teach elementary education. Maybe give them a week or two of training but they could probably do it without any. Do any of you think a person with a degree in math or science or engineering couldn’t teach high school math or science? Remember as I ranted about once, when I moved from Tampa to Anchorage they put me in the lower algebra class because Florida schools weren’t considered good and at that point Anchorage was rated as the number two school system in the nation. Of course they overlooked that I went to catholic school and have no idea whether the nuns were certified teachers but they were good.

And as I have said previously I basically taught the first semester because my teacher couldn’t effectively explain word problems and so basically she and my fellow students asked me frequently to go the board and explain it. This is not to brag but to point out what should be obvious. Some people have the capacity to convey information effectively and some don’t and teachers union approval has nothing to do with it.

All this certification nonsense has nothing to do with effectively educating children. It’s all about protecting a monopoly. It’s the licensing effect to keep out the competition — like barbers or hairdressers or nail salons — they want to limit competition. People should be able to use their own common sense to decide whether or not you like your barber or in my case my manicurist. Not

Clearly there are some professions that need to be licensed like doctors and lawyers because letting unqualified people practice could have devastating results.