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So here's a story.  First, for the record, I go to a CMRI chapel.  I personally know a woman, a recent convert from Lutheranism (MS).  She was going to the FSSP for Confirmation.  As there were no Sede chapels near her, I convinced her to switch to the SSPX chapel near her, where she would at least get valid Sacraments, including Confirmation.  She wants to be a teacher.  She applied to a Novus Ordo "Conservative" University to work and to go to school and the SSPX priest, still knowing she is new to the Faith, not even Confirmed yet, encouraged her to go, despite the dangers it poses, because he said her teaching degree will be useful for teaching at an SSPX school .

Short story, she said the wrong things (or right things by my account) and didn't get the job, but continued the classes, one of which is jam-packed with Wokeism and taught by a Jєω.  She only started going to the SSPX chapel in late Spring/Early Summer.  Through meeting a friend of a friend of mine, she got a job teaching at a different SSPX, a school affiliated with them.  They hired her, again, new to the Faith, only months an SSPX-goer, not even Confirmed, with only a few-months-long pedigree from the previous SSPX chapel she was hailing from.  Now, she is a wonderful person, is fairly red-pilled about the world, the small-hats, etc....but still very naive about the Crisis in the Church, and new to the Faith.  She is teaching 2nd and 3rd graders while continuing her Confirmation catechesis.  It is a much, much, much better situation for her than what she was in, so I am grateful for that.  However, it doesn't speak well of the SSPX, and makes them look desperate and willing to make hasty decisions regarding the quality of teachers they will recruit.

So here's a story.  First, for the record, I go to a CMRI chapel.  I personally know a woman, a recent convert from Lutheranism (MS).  She was going to the FSSP for Confirmation.  As there were no Sede chapels near her, I convinced her to switch to the SSPX chapel near her, where she would at least get valid Sacraments, including Confirmation.  She wants to be a teacher.  She applied to a Novus Ordo "Conservative" University to work and to go to school and the SSPX priest, still knowing she is new to the Faith, not even Confirmed yet, encouraged her to go, despite the dangers it poses, because he said her teaching degree will be useful for teaching at an SSPX school .

Short story, she said the wrong things (or right things by my account) and didn't get the job, but continued the classes, one of which is jam-packed with Wokeism and taught by a Jєω.  She only started going to the SSPX chapel in late Spring/Early Summer.  Through meeting a friend of a friend of mine, she got a job teaching at a different SSPX, a school affiliated with them.  They hired her, again, new to the Faith, only months an SSPX-goer, not even Confirmed, with only a few-months-long pedigree from the previous SSPX chapel she was hailing from.  Now, she is a wonderful person, is fairly red-pilled about the world, the small-hats, etc....but still very naive about the Crisis in the Church, and new to the Faith.  She is teaching 2nd and 3rd graders while continuing her Confirmation catechesis.  It is a much, much, much better situation for her than what she was in, so I am grateful for that.  However, it doesn't speak well of the SSPX, and makes them look desperate and willing to make hasty decisions regarding the quality of teachers they will recruit.

epiphany said: 
Agreed.

One sspx school hired a relative of mine to teach high schoolers.  She had just graduated homeschool high school herself.  

I've noticed a similar pattern as well. In general, teaching jobs in the SSPX do not pay very well, and therefore are not a survivable option for many folks (especially young men trying to get established before marriage etc.). As a result, the job candidates for these positions are few and far between, and there is a high turnover of these teachers in these jobs. When a candidate does show up, there can be a somewhat desperate scramble to hire regardless of specific academic (and even more importantly, spiritual) qualification. Granted, from the perspective of the school, it needs teachers to function and these are difficult to find. However, the potential ramifications for students would need to thought through very carefully, and if  in any way the choice would compromise their Faith, it shouldn't be done.

For a historical parallel, it reminds me a little of what happened to the German air force near the end of WWII. Once all the best pilots or "aces" were shot down/unavailable, the only remaining options were the youngest trainees. These were immediately pressed into service as pilots on complex missions regardless of their length of training or qualifications. Predictably, the result was a marked decrease in overall performance and efficacy... 

She applied to a Novus Ordo "Conservative" University to work and to go to school and the SSPX priest, still knowing she is new to the Faith, not even Confirmed yet, encouraged her to go, despite the dangers it poses, because he said her teaching degree will be useful for teaching at an SSPX school .

The SSPX can have a somewhat strange love/hate relationship with academic degrees from modern universities. On one hand, some priests can be vocal about specific errors of "modern academia" or some types of "modern scholarship" etc., which in most cases is justifiable. Sometimes this even grows into a general cynicism about the value of all academic degrees from a given modern university (which may or may not be a correct opinion; it all depends on what the specific degree is in, or where it was done, etc.).

On the other hand though, they often react favorably to the general mention of "education/teaching degree," in a candidate even though modern education degrees can be susceptible to liberal/modernist thought.  With so few Master's or doctoral degree holders in their teaching ranks, there can also be a tendency to view their few higher-level degree holders into "infallible" celebrities who are the complete end-all in their given subject. This can cause issues, as it often results in the academic opinions of one individual being framed as "dogmas". 

A well-trained traditional Catholic might be able to sift the good and discard the bad from a degree program (and perhaps could even provide valuable insights based upon this). However, it would definitely be more difficult for a recent convert/Novus Ordo Catholic to do this.