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Old 02-29-2016, 11:03 AM   #118
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Originally Posted by bizaro86 View Post
My wife is a teacher, she teaches high school math (IB and Math 31). Do you think the Principal/Vice Principals at her school (every one of whom has a phys ed degree and was a gym teacher) are likely able to judge whether she's teaching calculus correctly? I would bet a lot of money that none of them could PASS calculus.

Now, teacher's need to be evaluated in some way, and the terrible ones should be removed somehow. But getting admin to do it isn't necessarily the best way.
That's the old "only engineers are qualified to manage engineers" viewpoint. I find the best managers are actually not subject matter experts in the field of which their employees are. You don't need to be an expert to manage experts.
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