Seriously.
While California is trying to decide whether or not a parent really needs to be certified to teach their own children,
there's a teacher in Florida working with other people's children who isn't.
He has a temporary teaching certificate. He's trying to get his permanent certification.
"Machacyk, 49, has dyscalculia, a type of dyslexia that involves numbers. His learning disability puts him at a fifth-grade math level. The state certification test asks questions on a 10th-grade level."
"Machacyk, at one point, lost count of how many times he has taken the state's General Knowledge Math test. (The answer, he later recalled, is five.)
He does know this: He has failed every one of them."
It takes a score of 200 to pass the math test. Machacyk came close once, with a 181. But it might've been a fluke, he said. "I sweated through that and guessed on most of them," he said."
Now, I'm not saying he isn't a fabulous art teacher. He may well be and it sounds like he has quite a fan base. I'm not even saying that I wouldn't let my kids take art from him. And I'm definitely not saying that his disability is laughable because it isn't.
But honestly.... he's teaching children with state approval without meeting all the requirements that California would require of me?
I'm sorry but that just makes me laugh. | 
Posted by Arby
