This is the “Emergency Certified” Teacher Facebook group.
These people possibly have bachelor’s degrees, but in subjects completely unrelated to the subjects they will be teaching.
Common complaints are about the tests being too hard (they aren’t, you can memorize the questions on fucking quizlet).
My first year teaching I was pulled aside and told by my principal, “you actually have a degree in this, you’ll have to step in to help your team” - because the other science teachers were a Physical Education teacher and the schools secretary.
But no f-ggots allowed! Being a drag queen on the weekends disqualifies you to be a school principal now, no matter how good you were at it.
I will qualify that I struggled with the mild/moderate test (still passed but had to study) because it was quite literally incorrect about ASD. But Oklahoma is mostly about torturing autistic kids anyway.
This is just most education systems in America. You’re autistic or have other learning disabilities? Fuck you.
Unless you’re in a wealthy school district without easy access to a specialized school for “those people”, your options are limited if you’re in public school.
And I love teaching autistic kids. Please put me in a group of autistic children. I would absolutely fucking love to teach science to a group of autistic children.
But I am transgender, so I can’t. I don’t count as a human being where I live. Nothing would make me happier than spending all day teaching chemistry and physics but I can’t.
those kids deserve a great teacher. sorry you live in such a chud-governed state.
Ah, America. My condolences.
The teacher profession is all but dead in America. A lot of people that would be bad for students get weeded out through years of education and training. Most school districts are luck if they have more than 50% of their teachers educated/trained. The rest are individuals who could pass a background check. Poor areas, are under 30%. Just because someone can pass a background check doesn’t mean they should be around minors. But schools have no other option.
My student loans are about to come due.
It’s all but illegal for me to teach here. And I can’t get out. I’m so sick of being alive.
Oh I stopped paying those years ago and I realized the older generations trapped us. They literally tricked us into believing ideals and walking a path they designed to financially and spiritually cripple us so their end of life will be as comfortable as possible. Don’t give them what they want!
I know a guy who repairs HVAC systems. He has a high school diploma and a bunch of technical certs. Handy with math but everything else is OJT and training certs. He makes bank. Same with a plumber I know.
in the US, at least, higher ed is a way to funnel people into debt, the military, both, or (if they fail school but still get the debt) - poverty. something tells me it shouldn’t be this way, no one would design a system to operate this way if the goal was producing educated citizens.
I’m not cynical enough to buy the ‘schools are just prisons for kids man’ - between the shootings, overreaching bullshit (10 commandments, fear of woke etc.,) and absolute hell for teachers, I gotta wonder: who does all this garbage profit?
some conservatives want stupid voters, sure, but they also need skilled workers…
The issue is everyone in America should be educated up to a college degree level in core areas! Yes, absolutely we need more people going into the trades. But that doesn’t mean those people shouldn’t still have a college level understanding of math, reading, science, physical education, philosophy, health, history, sociology, and soooooo much more! We need to maximize the knowledge of Americans (of all people) if we are going to survive. Also that gives our younger people time to find themselves. In a perfect world you wouldn’t fully enter the work force until around 25 years old. Yes that late. Until then people should be exploring, learning, and practicing trades. Not grinding away the moment they are physically able to.
It depends on the state. Oklahoma is ranked 49 of 50 for its k-12 public education system, and we are seeing evidence of this here.
I am a physics teacher in a New Jersey high school (and not even a high ranked school) and I would say that a majority of the teachers are true professionals with masters degrees in education. New Jersey is ranked 2 of 50 though (just behind Massachusetts). We also see teachers salaries around and over $100,000 in New Jersey so it entices more people to become teachers and treat the job very seriously.
Ryan Walters is a the worst thing to happen to education in Oklahoma. I don’t know his involvement in testing, but he is just the worst.
There was a principal at Western Heights (iirc) who did drag on the weekends. No one knew. He was a great principal, had excellent performance reviews, was loved by his community.
Ryan Walters showed up to the school every day to tell them to fire him. And they did.
Ryan Walters is also gay himself. Everyone in the community knows this. He’s a chicken shit human, who helped write the evil woke social science standards, before he decided to have a political career.
Sucks when you study Genesis and Corinthians all night and then the test focuses on Deuteronomy.
Department head/biology teacher at one of the schools I worked at was a creationist Bible college graduate.
He would compliment students for choosing to not wear masks in 2021.
A senior software dev I worked under was a creationist but never used that word, he always said he was “not an evolutionist.”
No, no, it wasn’t that he didn’t believe in evolution, he was just opposed to it. Rather than species adapting, he preferred mass die-offs, so that the earth could be wiped clean of all organic life, paving the way for the rise of machine sentience.
you’ll have to step in to help your team
If you had impostor syndrome starting out like most people do, that must’ve been a wild ride. Feeling like a fraud while also being inarguably the most qualified person there sounds like a special hell.
