Reply #2: Mandatory teacher testing is a joke [View All]

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

I've taken the Arkansas test and know. Anyone who was a first year teacher and didn't know the curriculum would be weeded out by any competent principal. Too bad she didn't also work for an anti-nepotism law in the state. I found it impossible to get a teaching position because I wasn't related to anyone on the school board. And it wasn't just me--a couple of years later I knew a young woman with sterling credentials who wasn't hired (though a less qualified applicant was) because she didn't have enough relatives on the school board.