Losing faith in our teachers

Lately I find myself too often shocked by our education system, and sadly our teachers too.

My son (8) had to prepare a speech for class on Friday. After school I asked him how it went (knowing that this is not his favourite school activity). So he said it went fine, and the teacher said it was good. I thought: 'Yay!'.

Then he told me that it wasn't bad, because the teacher was talking on her cellphone while he was doing his speech, and the other kids were chatting!! He finished his speech before she was even done chatting on her phone, and then she told him: 'very good'......

I thought: WHAT?!! And how did she grade his speech?

Its bad enough that our teenagers are glued to their cellphones ALL THE DAMN TIME! And that they can't spell properly anymore, because they use sms language all the time. But teachers......in class?!

I find it completely unacceptable.