Re: Ask Sooga about being a high school math teacher.. ugh
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Do you have a degree in mathematics? What's the certification process in California?
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Yea I have a major in math. I heard some scary statistic that something like 25% of high school math teachers don't have a major OR minor in math. Don't know how reliable that stat is, but it does sound about right, based on the math teachers I've been colleagues with.
The certification process used to be you could just get your Bachelor's degree, take a couple of 'teaching' classes, and get your credential. Now with Bush's 'No Child Left Behind' mandate, you have to jump through a LOT of different hoops to get your credential. Bachelor's, then about 4 semesters of work to get your preliminary credential, then 2 more years of something called BTSA (Beginning Teacher something something) to get your clear credential, which is basically a 'real' credential. You then renew that every 10 years. I'm currently in the BTSA program, and let me tell you, suicide isn't looking like too bad an alternative right now. It's not hard work, but it's just busy useless crap work, that when piled upon the crap I already have to do makes life very bad.
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