It's not ALL teachers, but this TikTok trend of college students exposing their education-major friends who are set to be the next generation of teachers really brings an uncomfortable truth to the forefront.
You - yes you reading this - are more than qualified to teach your kid!
This girl, who is being schooled with all of the latest education theories and practices, critical theory, wokeism, and the "knowledge" and "professional skills" necessary to teach kids knows absolutely nothing of importance.
She would lose at Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?
Unless, of course, it was her fifth grader!
And she's not alone.
Here's the source for the chart.
And here's a study from the American Enterprise Institute way back in 2011, in case you thought this was a new problem with the zoomer gen.
Students who take education classes at universities receive significantly higher grades than students who take classes in every other academic discipline. The higher grades cannot be explained by observable differences in student quality between education majors and other students, nor can they be explained by the fact that education classes are typically smaller than classes in other academic departments. The remaining reasonable explanation is that the higher grades in education classes are the result of low grading standards. These low grading standards likely will negatively affect the accumulation of skills for prospective teachers during university training. More generally, they contribute to a larger culture of low standards for educators.
Tl;dr: An education major is an easy A.
The worst students, in general, choose the education path and get the best grades. And it has been this way for at least two decades.
It's worse than you realize.
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