In grad school, I taught recitation and lab sections of physics courses. Some of my students were local school district teachers. Two of them I remember. The

In grad school, I taught recitation and lab sections of physics courses. Some of my students were local school district teachers. Two of them I remember. These two, in different years, had one thing in common. Both were functionally illiterate. Neither one could read at the level one would need to in order to take the non-calculus version of physics. Math was simply beyond them. I asked my advising professor what I should do about this, as it was obvious that the right thing to do was to report this, get the person some help, and get them out of the classroom. I was told to drop it. That the teachers union was simply too powerful, and would protect their own. That if I made noise, it would hurt the university, this program, etc. That I should find a way to pass them. Yeah. That.