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Minimum grade point not a useful threshold
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Feb. 11, 2012 11:15 pm
The idea of education reform is great, but not when taken to the extent that has been recently proposed. All teachers to be required to have a 3.0 grade point before entering a teaching program, and then to have to take an additional exit exam as well, is taking things way too far.
Most will agree that teaching is mostly based on skill and personality, not a grade. Some of the greatest minds in the world didn't even go to college!
I will say that administration reform is necessary, and with politics between teachers and administrators, the administrators should not have total authority to evaluate individual teachers. While reform is necessary, the approach proposed is not.
Alex Stalkfleet
Cedar Falls
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