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M: What do you think of the literacy tests? They have it now
when you're a junior in high school. And last year at the
university, after your sophomore year, you were-having
to take a test similar to the literacy test in hopes of fielding
out people that aren't qualified to go on in education. What
do you feel about that?
T: Well, I approve of it.
M: You think it will help to kind of weed out those that
may be should't be teaching?
T: It isn't the only thing that should be used as a test in
weeding out teachers, but it is one choice they have trying
to help teachers become better in communication. And certainly
we need to have people who are rather proficient in communication
skills to work with our children.
M: There is complaint about the quality of teachers, so I guess they
could fall back on that.
T: But that wouldn't be the only scale I would want to use.
M: What else would you use?
T: I think first of all you have to look at the people who really want
to teach, who aren't doing this just till something better opens up
or they'll try it a while or don't have particular skills. .
M: Well, it used to be the profession that you, if you're a woman, went
into till you found a husband. ."But I think that today that's
changed, don't you?
T: Well, there are very few families can be supported on one salary.
M: That's true.
T: Why are you teaching?
M: I like it. I like the kids.
T: I do think more of them are staying in longer.
M: Well, it's funny thatnow that I look back on my friends that went to
college that majored in education and none of them are teaching
anymore. One's an airline stewardess, one's got a business that she's
working in and one's at home as a mother. I'm the only one that didn't
go into education and thats where I am, is in education. So I guess
you also change by the time you graduate from college and what you
might want to be when you started it, you change.