Please don't call Tod an ass. I'm saying that as much for your benefit as his...

It's a two-way street then...
Tod isn't one of them. He knows they aren't teaching what he needs to know. You criticize these self-styled teachers, and you council Tod that what he has always known is going away as if he hasn't said that very thing a thousand times just on this forum.
Your motive is not to try to make yourself feel like a teacher? Good, because you're trying to teach a calculus student long division. So what is your motive? Maybe I can help you find a method to achieve it that doesn't make people feel like they wound up in Sunday School for Four to Seven Year Olds.
My contributions have nothing whatsoever to do with "teaching" --- I'm not teaching, I'm
warning. You can listen or not, that's up to each of you, individually. A warning has nothing to do with either calculus or long-division, it has to do with the incoming ICBM that you
cannot see. And unlike the many Chicken Littles on this forum, I'm not calling for people to lay down and accept their fate like good lemmings because "the rich and powerful already control everything", I'm calling on people on this forum (and elsewhere) to
go look for the Matthew 24 prophetic signs, for yourself. If you've been watching all along, great, carry on as you were. No update. If not, wake up and go watch!! But to recharacterize a warning as an attempt to "be seen as a teacher" is just an
argumentum ad hominem (and false). And yes, I am so bold as to tell you that I'm
informing you of something you've never heard, seen or even imagined before -- I don't care who you think you are or what you think you know! (Isaiah 48:6b,7) You can call that "teaching" if you insist on making an
ad hominem, but it's not a teaching, it's a warning or, as I prefer to call it, a data-point for those who
are watching. If you don't like the packaging the warning comes in, well, that's just life... as Popeye said, I am who I am and that's all that I am....