Where did your teachers earn their degrees?

<p>^I write and edit for the newspaper, and we generally do articles on various teachers. After trawling the newspaper archives for information, I have managed to discover where just about every teacher in my school went for their degrees.</p>

<p>I’m surprised to see how many kids have teachers that went to prestigious schools. Maybe the teachers at my school aren’t good and I just don’t know any better, but almost all the teachers in my school went to our state schools, either the smaller ones or PSU/Pitt. The only teacher that I know of that went to what would be considered prestigious went there to play football. </p>

<p>I’m not sure why someone with those kinds of degrees would choose to teach high school. Do your school districts pay that well? Not that money is my only objective, but if I had a degree from X University, I think I would want to do something a little “better” than teaching high school. And this is from someone who has given serious thought to coming back to be a teacher.</p>

<p>subject: Health
college: U of Delaware
well-liked: No, simply put.</p>

<p>subject: Honors English II
college: Wake Forest
well-liked: I like her, I don’t know about anyone else.</p>

<p>subject: AP World
college: U of Michigan, missed the scholarship GPA by .01 (********.), and transferred to Western Michigan.
well-liked: Only by cross-country runners and suck-ups</p>

<p>subject: Civics
college: Appalachian State
well-liked: By girls, he’s quite the flamboyant one.</p>

<p>subject: Chemistry
college: SUNY Geneseo
well-liked: My favorite teacher, some people don’t like him because he makes fun of people, I find it hilarious.</p>

<p>subject: French Teacher
college: Don’t Know/Who Cares?
well-liked: Hell to the No.</p>

<p>subject: Algebra II
college: UNC Chapel Hill
well-liked: By some.</p>

<p>subject: History
college: Wesleyan
well-liked: Great person, doesn’t really teach, so not liked by serious students. He’s fascinating and really funny though.</p>

<p>subject: Math
college: Princeton
well-liked: not really</p>

<p>subject: Latin
college: Princeton
well-liked: Yesyesyes. She’s the nicest person; everyone loves her.</p>

<p>subject: English
college: Holy Cross
well-liked: Debatable. I adore her; she’s the best and most difficult teacher I’ve ever had. Many consider her a good teacher but don’t like her personally - very sarcastic, but hilarious.</p>

<p>subject: French
college: Middlebury
well-liked: Mostly</p>

<p>My schools sends 5-10% to Ivys (not HPY) and a good amount of others to top LACs.</p>

<p>The teachers I have who attended top schools are generally very good.</p>

<p>However, I have teachers who attended lesser colleges who are just as amazing.</p>

<p>subject:Pre-calc Honors
college:UCLA
well-liked: for the most part, probably like 75-25</p>

<p>subject:Chemistry Honors
college:Stanford
well-liked:yes by everyone</p>

<p>subject: Calc AB AP
college:UCLA
well-liked: yea for the most part</p>

<p>subject: Physics Regular and AP
college: UCLA
well-liked:50-50, he’s very boring, but says stupid funny jokes</p>

<p>subject:US History Regular
college:UCI
well-liked: he’s very chill and well-liked among students</p>

<p>subject: English 2 and 4
college: UCSB
well-liked: everyone loves her and she nurtures us…lol.</p>

<p>subject: french III/IV
college: UGA
well-liked: she’s a beeyotch to some people, BUT not to me so yay</p>

<p>subject: AP world
college: UAB
well-liked: people hate him because the class is pretty hard. what a SURPRISE!!! He’s cool to me, I guess</p>

<p>subject: chem honors
college: UCF
well-liked: incredibly nice, but a horribly boring subject to me</p>

<p>idk about everyone else, probably from the back of a magazine. Ha.</p>

<p>subject: ap USH
college: university of oregon (got accepted to somewhere better, but got a full ride there)
well-liked: most dislike him because he’s dull and has a boring curriculum </p>

<p>subject: ap lit and comp
college: stanford (got into colombia too)
well-liked: most like him</p>

<p>subject: Physics
college: Harvard
well-liked: Yes! He is pretty funny with his puns.</p>

<p>I only know four…</p>

<p>subject: Latin HP and Latin AP
college: All I know is that she got her masters in Britian (she’s british)
well-liked: Very</p>

<p>subject: Econ AP and CP
college: Graduate school - harvard…Later taught at a Japanese University as a professor
well-liked: Very</p>

<p>subject: English I and II HP
college: University of Washington
well-liked: Very</p>

<p>subject: teaches all the physics classes and journalism
college: UC Berkeley
well-liked: Not really…</p>

<p>Most teachers at my school earned a degree from either CSU Northridge, California Lutheran University, or UCLA.</p>

<p>I don’t know why a lot of them are teachers though because they clearly hate their job.</p>

<p>APUSH
University of Mary Washington
Well-liked: Definitely</p>

<p>AP Lang + Comp
University of Wyoming
Well-liked: Definitely</p>

<p>Honors Physics
Grove City College
Well-liked: Definitely</p>

<p>French 3
Emory University
Well-liked: Definitely</p>

<p>AP Psychology
Elon University
Well-liked: Definitely</p>

<p>Precalculus Honors
James Madison University + Georgetown
Well-liked: Not Sure</p>

<p>AP Computer Science
Cornell University + Virginia Tech
Well-liked: Definitely</p>

<p>How the hell do you guys have all these Ivy League Ph.D’s? Must be some way too expensive private school that in the end doesn’t get you anywhere a decent public can’t. Whatever, I’m fine with half my school’s teachers being from the U of Minnesota (and the other half usually worse places). We only have 1 Ph.D she’s a band teacher so does that really count? I don’t think so.</p>

<p>^I go to a public, nobody on my list went to an Ivy. :D</p>

<p>Well then I obviously wan’t referring to you.</p>

<p>^People are talking about college professors, not high school teachers.</p>

<p>subject: World Literature
college: Loyola Marymount
well-liked: among the majority, yes</p>

<p>subject: Calculus
college: Loyola Marymount
well-liked: yes</p>

<p>subject: AP Econ
college: Whittier College
well-liked: Mixed</p>

<p>subject: religion
college: Loyola Marymount
well-liked: definitely yes</p>

<p>subject: Physics
college: Loyola Marymount
well-liked: Yes</p>

<p>subject: AP Lit
college: University of Washington
well-liked: among seniors, yes. among freshmen, mixed</p>

<p>Huh…lots of my teachers went to LMU.</p>

<p>English. Went to Oxford (not sure which college). Definitely well-liked: he’s an excellent teacher, barely ever has to get angry, and is good-looking to boot.</p>

<p>Weirdly enough, I don’t know where any of my other teachers went to university.</p>

<p>They’re all Auckland, Otago and Canterbury university grads. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, go get a world map and look at the place on the right side of Australia :)</p>

<p>But my brother’s school (all boys’ private, oldest school in NZ if you’re interested) has a few Cambridge grads, probably because the school itself is Anglican and in my opinion, tries to be a British boarding school like a mini-Eton. LOL</p>

<p>lol most of mine teach here because they went to UMO…</p>

<p>Calc- UMO (University of Maine at Orono), ug and masters
AP Lang and Comp - UMO, ug and masters
Spanish IV - Colby for undergrad
Philosophy Seminar - Skidmore for undergrad, Tufts for masters
AP Euro - Reed for undergrad, Seattle University for masters
AP Chem - Bates for undergrad, UMO for masters</p>