Five Questions To Ask Every Teaching Candidate

Joshua Gibbs on the Circe Institute blog:

Question Four: “What do you think of your church?”

This is a far better question than, “Where do you go to church?” As an Orthodox Christian, I would rather hire a Presbyterian who loved his Presbyterian church than an Orthodox Christian who was ambivalent and critical of his church. Nobody should love their school more than their church, which means the answer to this question is going to show you the ceiling of his affection for the school.

This is for the school boards that are desperately beating the bushes to flush out any candidate with a flicker of a pulse.

Related:

One noteworthy thing about South Carolina is the quality of school-bus drivers in the state. To qualify for a bus license one must have reached puberty and be able to recite the alphabet without stuttering.

(Conroy, Pat. The Water Is Wide: A Memoir (p. 141). Open Road Media. Kindle Edition.)

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