Low qualifications? Obtaining a teaching credential is essentially a five-year degree, since you need a bachelor's, plus other educational requirements and a student teaching gig. That's just to get in on the entry level. There are continuing educational requirements, basically throughout a teacher's career... and the tuition requirements that go with them.
There's a reason for why education schools are called diploma mills. Education degrees are about as fluffy as a degree can get. There is no way you can compare a degree in education with any other real degree. They have to be: the students are drawn from the bottom of the barrel (again, see GRE and SAT scores). Most US education students wouldn't get through a real degree program (sciences, English, other humanities, etc.).
These are people who struggle to pass watered-down qualification exams and complain about having meaningful standards or evaluations applied to them.
