Education

Seriously?!

I'll give you another example: my ex-husband graduated from our college with his pre-med degree and got into a top-tier med school. He did that with a C in Comparative Anatomy, a required class. He wouldn't have graduated in education from my college with that, as we weren't allowed to get anything below a B in a core class, a major or minor class, or an education class. We had to pass the National Teacher Exam in our content area and the main required tests on the first try or flunk out of the education department at our college in our senior year during our student teaching and graduate without a teaching license at all.

Before you say pre-med was more difficult, we went to a small college, and there was no difference between the Comparative Anatomy the pre-meds took and the Comparative Anatomy our science education majors took. Same class.

I graduated salutatorian with a double major, a minor, and another minor not quite completed (English, Secondary Ed track, minor in Spanish and almost completed my Russian minor, thought I dropped the math minor I now regret having done). Now I am required by my profession to start my master's degree within 2 years and complete it in 4 years or fewer unless I want to lose my certification. I'm not the only teacher I know with a background like that. Many teachers finish their professional degrees and then decide to go into teaching for the love of their content area and working with kids--are they "under-achievers" too?

I am sorry that your school district isn't meeting the standard for your child. That is wrong on many levels. That said, you have the law on your side and should require that they follow it and teach your daughter.