If you are a high school student in Texas, and not taking AP classes, there's a high likelihood the honorific you use for your math and science teachers is “Coach” and I'm not sure that's how we're supposed to be prioritizing any of this.
@agiletortoise It was always history classes when I was growing up. Ironically, my dad was the only coach teaching math at my high school. And my one year (at age 22) as a high school coach and teacher I actually taught AP Comp Sci.
@bhrnd AP Comp Sci teacher at my son's HS was a golf coach who knew nothing about the material, could not answer questions, and just baby sat them while they taught themselves with an online curriculum.
@agiletortoise oof. Well that makes me feel a little better about myself 20 years ago. 🫤 It was late October before any of my classes got textbooks though which was greeeeat. I really like my AP Comp Sci kids because they actually cared. I really struggled with pretty much all of the rest of them though and was already looking for industry jobs by January of that first year.
@bhrnd I mean, the two of my kids that took AP Comp Sci both still got 5s on the test, but it certainly wasn't because of the teacher.
That said, it's a far bigger deal in Math/Science, IMHO. One of the pre-AP Bio "coaches" was telling the kids that he didn't believe in dinosaurs. Ugh.
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