Home Schooling

[devonin]

I actually don't know anything about the Canadian school system.

It is in many ways very similar to the American school system, we just tend to split up elementary school not at all, and it's just K-8, 9-12 without a "middle school" And with regards to my previous comment about the qualification of teachers, my point about how "yes from K-6 you can argue that the teacher is teaching outside their specialty but not after" was referring to the fact that at least in my school, for 7-8 to "help prepare us for highschool" we had a very high-school like rotary system, when we'd have one teacher for history, another for geography, another for math etc. so as in highschool, we were being taught by teachers who had actually gotten their undergrad in the subject they were teaching.

And insofar as the argument that you can teach with nothing but a BA and a Teaching certificate and this doesn't mean you know the subjects you're teaching: At least in canada, you get a BA and a B.Ed which is a seperate degree entirely. You can do concurrent education and get both in 5 years, or you generally go 4 for an undergrad and 2 for the B.Ed, but I would argue that this -still- puts you ahead of the average parent, because the B.Ed doesn't necessarily teach you your subject, it teaches you to teach, which is at least if not more valuable.