Is FORT a good test to require teachers to take? The test seems rather difficult if it is a problem for college educated adults. What skills are lost by allowing professionals who can’t pass the test?
How messed up is the current school funding situation? School-age children as a percentage of the population is dropping, so it isn’t like we need more children as a percentage of the population. If school budgets kept up with inflation, we shouldn’t need teachers to take a vow of poverty.