Call it what it is, a political loyalty test.
The state education department announced Wednesday that it is partnering with the conservative media company PragerU to develop a new certification test for teachers relocating to Oklahoma from states with “a history of promoting anti-American narratives.”
PragerU! Holy fuck!
Amid an ongoing teacher shortage
“Nobody wants to come here, let’s make it even less appealing.”
Or attract people who probably shouldn’t be teaching.
As Texas did during educator shortages by lowering the standards to allow the unqualified to “teach”. There was also a push to draw from ex-military and other conservative demographics, but I don’t recollect the exact details. This compromise in quality was furthered by a scandal that had proxies taking the teaching standards tests for the already unqualified. So everything is going according to plan. /jfc
Yeah, the pedophiles are going to be applying for OK teaching jobs en masse. I don’t even think this is an exaggeration. 😢
If you can get those football championships, it’s a-okay to show kids what “a real man’s dick looks like.” (this guy STILL has his teaching license)
I have some very inside baseball about systemic cover-ups at different schools.
And I didn’t even want to work a very well paying corporate job that was in Oklahoma can’t imagine waiting to jump through hoops to have a low paying teaching job in that shit hole state.
the state is dedicated to “raising a generation of patriots, not activists.”
What a terrifying statement to make.
Just straight-up Trump Youth.
I’m dumb as fuck and a racist against everybody who in(is) not the specific type of ignorant I is… Can I have one teaching PhD please I’m going to teach in Oklahoma.
Pour one out for future comedy writers whose bizarre caricatures of Oklahoman ignorance will be tame and ordinary next to the real thing.
It’s bad. One of the biggest “districts” in the state is Epic Charter Schools, a virtual school/state embezzlement scam (during COVID, the “learning funds” were buying TV’s and Christmas trees). Teachers there teach all subjects, all grades, so the same person teaching your kid Algebra 2 is teaching kindergarteners how to read.
The school only drops you if you don’t log in for 14 days. So a lot of kids will log in once or twice a week, maybe submit a couple of AI generated essays, and then spend the rest of the day playing video games and watching Netflix. These kids are functionally illiterate. I’m not even talking about the fact that our country decided to stop teaching phonics which has fucked up literacy everywhere, but more high schoolers who cannot read a paragraph or write a complete sentence. I taught a sophomore what Christianity was (not like indoctrination, but more that religion existed as a concept.)
Sounds like child abuse. Hope they get the state they’re working so hard to build.
It sucks ass for those of us that are trapped here. It’s a battle that cost me my marriage, my mental health, everything. I’ve had so many friends and people I respect tap out. I had hope that if Kamala won there might be federal intervention - perhaps in education and foster care (especially kids who need psychiatric care/have disabilities, Jesus Christ is it an institution dedicated to sacrificing children to Moloch) - but nothing is probably ever going to change.
For anyone who sees this, the podcast (at least that’s how I consumed it) that andros_rex linked here, Sold a Story from American Public Media, is fascinating, and terribly sad, and I very much recommend it. My wife and I binged the entire thing on a trip. I’ve since recommended it to every teacher I know, and many other people.
Moses fuck (sorry had to), but yeah that’s real fucking bad. As a taxpayer I’m getting really sick of the fact that teachers aren’t being given the resources they need to actually teach and that those resources are being split with charter and sometimes private schools.
Like, I was privately educated, but I want every kid to have the quality of education I got minus the Christian indoctrination. By the time a significant number of kids are entering middle school illiterate we need an independent investigation and report akin to when airplanes crash.
Prove you’re unintelligent in order to teach?? OK
You certainly don’t need to prove that you know math to teach math.
Any bachelors is enough to get you in a classroom. I worked with physical education teachers teaching physical sciences. We didn’t have curriculum (books were more than ten years out of date) so I was teaching my colleagues how the periodic table worked.
Admittedly, this little order is pretty pointless - teachers are desperate to get out of Oklahoma. I remember driving to work every day seeing a sign I could make about 150% more just driving down to Fort Worth…
You’d think leadership in this country would want a smarter population. But not conservatives, oh no. Smart people don’t vote for shit stains so they know they’d be done
The most educated generation became the most progressive, and since we happened to be financially fucked the educational experiment obviously failed /s
You know what? Actually, I don’t.
How far do I bow down?
So they are going to just exclusively start hiring pedophiles huh…
Plus people who torture foster kids (and have DHS cover for them - the worker that tried to intervene was fired!) This cumstain did lose her license at least.
This story made me so mad I puked. I just am at a loss for words…
Ok😴
