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Recently my son decided to join the world a little bit early. I had him Monday, July 13 at 7:41 p.m. via a C-section. He was only 34 weeks and 6 days. I had him at Meriter after going into the hospital on Friday diagnosed with preeclampsia. The doctors and nurses have been keeping a close eye on me for several weeks because my blood pressure was just too high for their liking.
Meriter is a teaching hospital. It allows those students in college at the University of Wisconsin Madison to be able to have hands on experience in several different fields. When a doctor came to visit me during their rounds they had no less than 4 resident staff members with them, each with either a note pad or possible a tablet of some sort. Even when going through the birth process, there were 4 "doctors" on hand waiting to see how far along I was getting. They were not in the room because they didn't want it to be too overwhelming for me. After much pushing it was decided that a C-section was the best way to go about having the little guy. There was a doctor watching over me during the surgery processes, asking if I was in pain while those in training did the surgery.
It was a sort of overwhelming during the whole ordeal having several people walk into your room to discuss things about you while they are staring at you in a room.
This whole process got me thinking about Gov. Walker's idea of allowing teachers in Wisconsin to teach without any type of licence or on a competency-based teaching license.
These students being taught in the hospital started out in high school where teachers instilled thoughts of becoming a doctor, nurse, pharmacist in their minds, along with plenty other students who will grow up to be lots of different things. Do we really want our kids to be taught by someone who doesn't have a teaching degree and just has learned bits and pieces here and there? I want my son to learn from the best and I believe the best have to go onto college and earn that degree.