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Message: [QUOTE="temery, post: 4466215, member: 1"] Honestly, I don't see most teaching positions needing the best and brightest. I worked with a dozen or so Ivy League grads and they were among the worst teachers I've come across. Two of the best teachers I had were at a vocational school. Neither graduated high school. They were former military and were SeaBees in WWII and Korea. Elementary teachers, especially at the younger grades, take a special kind of person, not an advanced degree. I have two master Master's Degrees and a CAGS. I learned next to nothing in the Master's and CAGS in education. My student teaching advisor had never been in a classroom. I had one teacher for several classes. He had a PhD, but never worked with kids outside a college setting. Massachusetts requires continuing education, and my district paid 2/3rds of tuition, and thousands more for each degree. That's the only reason most teachers I worked with got advanced degrees. [/QUOTE]