From The Home School Court Report, a publication of HSLDA:

Since my youngest daughter has completed our family's home education program, I have begun substitute teaching occasionally. I was recently subbing in an elementary classroom in a private school of some reputation. [emphasis added] The second-grade teacher from the class next door came in to ask me a question, but she prefaced it with, "Now, did you always homeschool, or did you teach in a real school before that?"
"Before I had children I used to teach in a conventional school," I replied.
"OK, I can ask you this question then. Does the sun go around the earth? Or does the earth go around the sun?"

Surprised, I said, "Well, the earth goes around the sun."
The teacher still needed clarificaiton: "Does the earth go all the way around the sun in just one day?"
"No, no. It takes 365 days for the earth to go around the sun."
This answer only puzzled her the more, and so I had to explain that we have night and day becauase the earth is rotating on its axis.
This was a 25-year-old, state-certified teacher. [emphasis added] When people tell you your children are missing out, don't worry about it.

I'm sure glad the government has insured a quality certification process so morons like this can have a career screwing kids up.

Have you actually met the kids going for an education degree? As a group, they tend to be the idiots in school. They're the ones who can't handle a real degree, so they go for "education". Have you attended education classes? Seen the degree requirements? There are classes on "bulletin board design". The course load is largely a joke. "Teachers" graduate without a clue of differing learning styles, let alone how to reach each of them. (They certainly don't realize the very structure of schools is heavily weighted against some of these learning styles, practically insuring their eventual failure.) They don't know how to teach. If fact, without teacher's editions of the textbooks, their uselessness would be plainly revealed.

Our firsthand experience with homeschoolers reveals countless certified teachers who have left the corrupt system to properly educate their own brood. Without exception, these certified teachers have discounted the value of their degree wholeheartedly, freely admitting all their training did nothing to prepare them to really educate--even their own children.

Not that I pre-judge the next teacher I meet (for I allow for the rare exception), but as a generalization, I have a very low opinion of teachers. I find it disgusting how the masses tend to worship these dumbest of our society and hand their God-given blessings over to them for indoctrination.