Alternatives in Education Schools without Teachers

There was an editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle by Kitty Kell Eptsein about schools that were essentially with out teachers. People should write to the San Francisco chronicle about this article. Essentially it portrays a situation the teachers with their basic education type course really can not teach certain subjects. If the school is going to have teachers teach math then the school should require or get teachers that know math not whether they have a degree in education. This according to the article was true with Spannish. Our school system should require that teachers or should I say leaders of a class room at least be able to handle the subject that they are trying to lead the students into learning. This country really has a problem with the idea that a teacher college graduate makes a good teacher. Maybe some day this country will learn what is really needed to lead the students and that is not always a degree in Education. Maybe it is time that teacher colleges closed up and just an exam be used to get teachers. That should be in the subjects that is to be taught. The rest can be learned on the job. I have changed some of the thoughts in the article but these ideas are worth listening too.