State law loosening requirements for teachers comes under fire

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10. This can create a educational downward spiral.

High school graduates teach high school and impart their limited knowledge and wisdom to the next group of high school graduates who impart their even more limited knowledge and wisdom to the following group, and so on.
Not to mention a greater reliance on ingrained religious and societal beliefs to make up for the inability of the teaching staff to teach actual truth that they don't know or believe in.
This can even affect absolute subjects like math and science. Who can learn Calculus when the teacher is barely competent in Algebra? How can complex scientific principles be shown when the teacher didn't understand them when they were taught?
Ignorance becomes a standard.

Idiocracy here we come.