It has always bothered me --- considerably --- that people who are math-phobic (let's face it and say they don't understand math) are allowed to teach it. I mean, it's one thing to not understand vectors in three dimensions, but basic stuff like percentiles?
You have no idea what kind of "science" and "computer science" teachers my local school district hires (BA in Recreation and BA in Physical Education - I looked them up on Linkedin)! I admit that these people teach elementary school where subject matter is not very advanced, but, what if a child had a relevant question that is not covered in the syllabus? Would these people shut the kid down or give wrong answers or worse still, ignore the child? I shudder to think about it.
