<p>Puh-leese. My school? Maybe one out of ten or so.</p>
<p>That'd be because part of my school is basically community college, with courses like auto-body repair, and a course where the teacher literally simply monitors the students while they sit around doing nothing. We have three teachers doing that pretty much exclusively.</p>
<p>Wow, my school doesn't have any doctorates at all. It's just a regular public school though.</p>
<p>4</p>
<p>2 in math
1 in theology
1 in medicine "teaches AP Bio"</p>
<p>Mine's a normal, middle-of-the-road public high school... and we only have two Ph.D holders on the faculty, as far as I know. One is the world religions and drama teacher, and I think his Ph.D is in... hmmm... East Asian studies or something like that. (He's fluent in Korean and understands Chinese and Japanese... I don't know to what extent.) He used to be a prof at the UW. He doesn't like people to address him as "Doctor," because he feels that it widens the student-teacher gap even further and hampers communication. He's the best teacher we've got. He always is voted favorite teacher by the senior class, so he's always the one who hands out the diplomas at graduation. :D</p>
<p>The other Ph.D holder is one of the counselors, and he is called "Dr." His doctorate is in psychology. Unfortunately, my last name is one letter too high in the alphabet for him to be my counselor. :p</p>
<p>This year I am taking
physics chem math lit econ bio.
All those teachers are Dr. except for the econ one.</p>
<p>I'm a senior and looking back, the majority of my teachers (85-90%) of them were Dr.</p>
<p>My high school (all boys, Jesuit, 450 guys or so) had one teacher with a doctorate, Dr. Ochs. He teaches US history. Well, he teaches US history the same way to everyone, and then makes the "AP kids" come to like 5 hour-long sessions second semester to learn the stuff the regular class won't get to before the exam. He teaches virtually every student that goes through Prep (everyone except junior transfers who've already taken US history). One of the better teachers I've ever had.</p>
<p>Every other teacher at Prep had a masters (or two, or three), or was working on it (except for maybe Profe...but you don't really need a grad degree to teach Spanish I and II).</p>
<p>Small competitive public school - one chem teacher, one math teacher, and one guidance councelor. But honestly my worst teachers have had PhDs...all the rest have just had BA/MA. All of the best teachers that I've ever had don't have doctorates in anything, so...I don't really use it as a judge of teaching ability or quality.</p>
<p>It is a severe waste of human intelligence to allow individuals with advanced degrees to teach high school students.</p>
<p>competitive public school
~10 with a doctorate</p>
<p>My chem teacher has a doctorate and every lesson, she tells us her bitter stories of how she has to teach us dumbnuts when she attained a doctorate that took 5 million years to get.</p>
<p>Luxar, I bet many people would fiercely disagree, but I think what you said is correct.
I've only had one class taught by a PhD holder, and the class wasn't any better for it.
No matter how educated the teacher is, the material must remain at high school level. Why does he need to hold an advanced degree?<br>
I always felt bad when people weren't listening. I wanted to stand in my chair and yell "THIS MAN HAS A DOCTORATE. I don't know what he's doing trying to teach us about photosynthesis, but could you at least ****ing listen!?!"</p>
<p>To teach college-level courses to high school students. Duh.</p>
<p>^Not only that, but teaching at a high school is a very "easy to get" and plentiful type of job, especially with a PhD.</p>
<p>Two that i know of and 1 that is in the process of getting hers</p>
<p>Only 3. Actually they are the only Ph.D holders in the history of the school. They are all equally brilliant and wonderful teachers.</p>
<p>A whole one!! lol
:D my AP Physics teacher</p>
<p>oh, and a vice principal</p>
<p>Hm... my mother has no degree whatsoever in Spanish (BA in English, currently earning an MFA in creative writing/poetry), but she's a Spanish teacher and teaches all levels.</p>
<p>Small private school.</p>
<p>I think their are 6 doctorates. 3 in english, one history, one math and one bio</p>
<p>My physics/calculus/engineering teacher has one. We call him "Doc." I call him that so many times that I sort of forgot his name. =p</p>
<p>He teaches a technical center in the less... economically advantaged half of my county.</p>
<p>Well, if anybody had a doctorate degree, they don't like to be called doctor, so I assume if they're not called Dr., no doctorate.</p>
<p>So, by that definition:</p>
<p>The teachers I've had personally: 0.
Faculity members that I know of: 2. (One physics teacher and our principal.</p>
<p>One social studies teacher has one in...</p>
<p>Divinity</p>