re: Teacher certification in Louisiana

Private schools do not require the certification.

Certification doesn’t make you a good teacher.

Is this person a poor teacher?

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underperforming shitty teachers.

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Look at the lazy arse students and often absentee parents first!

Nor do private schools have to educate special Ed kids. They pick and choose their students, and send the difficult kids to public schools, which have no choice. Shut them down!

Damn buncha ratards

if you're certified, there's plenty of demand in better school districts.

This is what happens when teachers aren’t paid enough and treated like shite at every turn. They get burnt out and want to do other things while districts are stuck having to take whoever they can get.

I don’t disagree with the entirety of your post but I’ll push back a bit on the following point.

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Public schools get extra funding for every SPED student they have of any level. They are forced to buy extra TAs for every kid rated SPED in any way, but that gets them the extra money. Which means public schools want to qualify as many kids as SPED as possible for the money. This creates obligations for TAs, counselors, etc., but none of you give a shite, because you got more money (along with increased expense.)

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The requirement for extra staff is more of a burden than anything. I don’t know all the particulars but I don’t doubt we get extra money for sped students to help cover their “needs” (half of the kids I interact with that qualify for sped have no business having an IEP) including hiring paras. That said, we have way less paras in my school than we “need” because we don’t have enough money to cover it. There’s always a couple holes in classes where there should be a para but there isn't because of a lack of staff.

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Licensing rules are the reason chemical engineers for 30 years for Dow can't teach high school chemistry without an 18 month unpaid re-education curriculum

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also this isn’t true currently (it may have been true at the time that situation happened I’m not disputing that). A lot of states offer alternate route certification where you can still teach as long as you can pass the praxis. In Kansas I taught for a year while I was taking the education classes I didn’t have in my undergrad on a “restricted” license until I finished. All I had to do was pass the math praxis and provide proof I was making progress to finishing the certification after each term. I’m almost certain Louisiana has something similar. I looked into it at one point but that was about 8 years ago so that may be different now.

ETA: just read back through the entire thread. Just want to go on record that I definitely do not agree with Mung either. Both systems have their place. With the amount of money we waste as a country on absolutely retarded shite like Ukraine and whoever else we send gobs of money to, rerouting that money to things like actually making sure there’s qualified people in place to educate children and they’re supported/taken care of as long as they’re meeting professional standards seems like it should be more of a priority.

Don’t get me wrong. The whole system needs an overhaul it’ll never get (including the ridiculous sped processes that happen). It’s beyond just throwing money at it at this point. But it won’t get better without making sure qualified people are in place to make those changes either.

One of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever been given from a colleague was in my first year after a rough email from a parent. They were chewing me out for something silly and I went to our department chair to try and ask her how to handle it. First words out of her mouth were “well Pedro, at least they care.” There’s still obviously situations where the parent needs to chill but I’d much rather those situations than the ones that couldn’t care less.

I work in behavioral therapy for kids with autism.... what youre seeing here is panic. Sped teachers especially in autism rooms quit like crazy so schools end up spending the rest of the year looking for a warm body to throw in there.