This was a post by a French teacher who has his own online outreach. He does not work for a school, but interviewed for a job years ago at a Catholic school. This is what he wrote:

...I have to say I was also very curious about a school’s hiring process. I’d always wondered who had the skills to choose a foreign language teacher. The man who interviewed me had no background in foreign languages. He did not ask me a single question about my knowledge or skills in French.

He talked about school codes and rules. He talked a lot about religion. He asked about my relationship with God and how I incorporated religion in my French classes...
...he said that my teaching online didn’t count in terms of experience...

At the end of the meeting, the gentleman asked me: “Do you have any questions for me?” I have to say I hadn’t talked much during that interview, and we hadn’t talked about French at all.

Since I didn’t care much about the outcome of the interview, I thought it wouldn’t hurt to be honest, so I told him: “I’m sure you’ll be interviewing lots of people over the next few weeks. Why would you hire me instead of someone else?” He seemed puzzled by my question and said “I don’t know!”

I told him I could most likely spend hours teaching French as a Foreign Language to the vast majority of the applicants he would meet. I told him there was a good chance the vast majority of them would not know 20% of what I knew because I had lived and breathed foreign languages ever since I was 12, 24/7.

It's interesting to consider how schools determines the teachers they hire. Has any parent ever asked that question? Have you, as a parent, questioned where the science teacher came from, what his credentials are, who recommended him for the job? Give that some thought and get back to me.

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