To teach in the New York City School Jungle System you must have a degree in education. This is a phoney make believe degree especially geared to people who cannot pursue a college degree in any other major. Sociology is another joke degree. Believe it or not Albert Einstein could not teach math or physics in a NYC highschool. To get a teachers certificate you must take courses such as, "Understanding Urban Youth', learning differences of the underserved population", 'cultural differences in the preception of mathmatics', "building self esteem in minority children', 'african gifts to civilization" and the list goes on and on. If you are a math teacher you hardly take any math courses at all. When I was taking my degree in mechanical engineering CAD, we had a bruta that was in a teaching program who was so math incompetent that he could not even use a calculator. To make a long story short, we are in serious trouble. These teachers that have these phoney degrees are not capable of teaching anythng at all except left wing ideology. In private schools you are able to teach if you have a degree in math or chemistry, in public school you can't. Take a look at the complexion of the faculties in private schools and public schools and draw your own comclusions.