Lily Bjorlin, Chapter 8, Question 1

The main issue in this chapter that applies to my life is the teacher certification situation. The vast majority of people in my family are teachers. My mom, my dad, my aunt, two of my uncles, five of my cousins, my grandpa, and my grandma were/are teachers. I am planning on being and Elementary Education major in college and be a second grade-ish teacher one day. If teachers' unions continue to make it harder to get accredited, the supply of new teachers will decrease. While it does make sense to increase the required level of learning for teacher so as to have a higher quality of education available to students, by only making new teachers go through the harder process education boards aren't really changing anything. They are only thinking of how it will look to the public. If they made the new credidation level required for all teachers, the quality of education would be more likely to be better.