Yesterday we discussed the case of some North Carolina government school teacher – Miss Something – hyphen – Something – telling her students that people could go to jail for saying bad things about Barack Obama.  She also told her students that people went to jail “all the time” for saying bad things about George Bush when he was president.

I noted that this was the typical idiocy you would find in the ranks of government school teachers.  After all .. when it comes to higher educaton, education majors are the dregs of the dregs.  Well naturally listeners didn’t like that message, so I bought some backup with me to Nealz Nuze today.

First .. an article from CBSnews.com from June of last year:  “Here’s The Nation’s Easiest College Major.”  The article flatly stated that if you don’t want to work all that hard to get a college diploma you should major in education.  The article states: “Research over the years has indicated that education majors, who enter college with the lowest average SAT scores, leave with the highest grades.  Some of academic evidence documenting easy A’s for future teachers goes back more than 50 Years.” 

Did you catch that little gem hidden in the middle of that quote?  I’m talking about the phrase “…who enter college with the lowest SAT scores …”  Yup, that’s right.  Our government school teachers come from the group with the lowest SAT scores in their own high school graduating classes! 

For more on that angle to the story we go to a study from The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)  Take a look at the NCES “Digest of Education Statistics.”  Table 136.  There you see average SAT scores for students pursuing various majors in college.  As Walter Williams pointed out when he looked at these stats:  “Students who select education as their major have the lowest SAT scores of any major (964).  Math majors have the highest (1174).  

Then we go on to college graduates entering graduate school.  Looking at GRE (Graduate Record Exam) scores for students pursuing advanced degrees, those looking for advanced Education degrees have the lowest GRE score (467) of all majors except Sociology.  Math majors again have the highest. 

So, once again, as you bundle your children off to their government school --- just know that these teachers who will be preparing your children for life as adults generally came from the dregs of their high school classes and, if they took the GRE after receiving their undergraduate degree, from the dregs of that group as well.  “But they made straight A’s” you say?  Go back and read this bit again.

And whatever you do ---- don’t rock the boat by demanding school choice or yanking your kid out of those government schools for either home schooling or a private school.  After all, it’s only your kid we’re talking about here.