Syag totally got my point
I never said speaking yiddish makes you unqualified, not having a masters degree does make you unqualified
Unfortunatly today the larger majority of yiddish speakers are Chassidim or people who grew up chassidish (and became OTD) some eldery people and a select few people who either learned yiddish from their grandparents or learned from the YIVO.
In college I once took Yiddish literature in translation, the professor was a reconstructionist “rabbi” , If instead of being an acadamian he became a special ed teacher, would you accept him as a teacher? He was also anti-relgious.
How many younger yiddish speakers have masters degrees from accedited institutions in special ed? The eldery who might speak yiddish and have masters degrees probably are too old to teach anymore.
I purposely kept spanish out of the conversation and picked a neutral language like Pashtun which probably has a similar number of speakers in the NYC area as Yiddish, and the reason was Spanish is somewhat politically charged for various reasons.