Basic Skills Test

The overall main idea of this essay is that teachers should have to pass a basic certification test that shows they are eligible to teach students what they need to learn. The author supports this main idea by giving examples of teachers in certain states who take the basic test and are unable to pass it. Therefore, they are unable to help students learn the things they are in school for. The secondary main idea in this essay is that thousands of teachers fail the basic skills test, but still maintain their job as a teacher. The author supports this main idea by stating facts about teachers who were dismissed from their jobs, and those who got to keep their job. In today’s world you see many students who have no idea what is going on in the class, and have a hard time passing it because the teacher doesn’t know the correct way to help the students. I believe that passing the basic skills test should be a requirement for teachers, so that students will feel comfortable in the classroom and be able to …show more content…
This is why a lot of teachers don’t care if they are a good or bad teacher, because they know that they can cheat the system and get away with a lot of things, and don’t have to care whether a student passes or fails their class. They are getting paid either way. I especially find this trait in high school teachers, because they are always complaining about everything that goes on. Whereas, I believe that college professors actually care about their students and what happens in the classroom. I almost guarantee that a college professor could pass the basic skills test with no problem. All in all, it should be a requirement for teachers to have to pass the basic skills test if they really want good teachers in this community. It would save the schools a lot of time and money, and students would get educated a lot better if they had teachers who know what’s going on in and outside of the