Posted on 01/06/2025 7:28:42 AM PST by Red Badger
Call me old-fashioned, but I have always been under the impression that a minimum requirement for teachers would be basic literacy skills.
But that's just some outdated mumbo jumbo, I guess. Because in New Jersey, they need teachers and they don't care if they can even read or not.
A 6th-grade reading comprehension is NOT hard! Heck, there was a time when this was required to, you know, graduate to the 7th grade.
But after years of schools just passing kids along, grade by grade, learning apparently nothing, now we have teachers who have teaching degrees and licenses but who can't read as well as a 12-year-old!!
From Campus Safety Magazine:
New Jersey Democratic Governor Phil Murphy passed Act 1669 as part of the state's 2025 budget in June to address a teacher shortage, Read Lion reports. The law went into effect on Jan. 1, 2025. Individuals seeking an instructional certificate will no longer need to pass the Praxis Core Test, a basic skills test for reading, writing, and math that is administered by the state's Commissioner of Education.
'We need more teachers,' Democratic Sen. Jim Beach, who sponsored the bill, said in May 2024 when the chamber cleared the bill in a 34-2 vote. 'This is the best way to get them.'
Translation: "We just need bodies in the building." The people who voted in favor of this law will, in the same breath, tell you that homeschooling is not a quality education.
Just a few months prior, Murphy also signed a similar bill into law that established an alternative pathway for teachers to sidestep the testing requirement. According to Read Lion, the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA), a teachers union, was a driving force behind the bill and called the testing requirement 'an unnecessary barrier to entering the profession.' NJEA is associated with the National Education Association (NEA).
Teachers' unions, what would education be without them? (Good. Education would be good without them.)
It's really quite insane.
Ping!...................
I suspect these sorts of teachers will not be working in the towns where there are no houses under $1.5 million.
Apparently, neither are the politicians that support the new law . . .
Oh this is gonna work out spectacularly. SMH
Next up......in new joisey your surgeon need not have a medical degree.
Yet another reason to homeschool.
Surprised they're not looking at using H-1b visas to import foreign teachers - who can probably read English better than what they're hiring if they no longer need to pass an elementary-level reading, writing and math test.
Isn’t the idea behind a “teacher” someone who passes along a skill they possess?
This is about keeping people from improving their lot, so the liberal elites aren’t threatened in their social position. Keeping people dumb keeps them from getting rich.
This kind of jackassery is why no less than 30 public schools in my county are slated for closure.....parents demanding better learning by home schooling or transferring to private schools.
I went to public school in the 70s and back then my school system actually prepared you to at the very least go to junior college.
I mean, Jersie...
I mean, Jerzy.
Never mind, where's my teaching certificate?
Kids are just the grist for Deep State’s diploma mills.
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I guess you don't need to be literate to teach sexism, racism, and DEI wokeness.
Anyone who wants kids who are literate needs to homeschool them.
Next, they’ll hire illegal immigrants as teachers.....
Truth be told, the majority of New Jersey’s urban high school graduates are functionally illiterate. Basic arithmatic is beyond them. Most are amoral.
There should be no "public" education in a Free Republic.
If states needed more qualified teachers, why not treat certain certifications as equivalent to the teacher cert by default (e.g. CPA, PE license, RN, MD, etc.).
What parents wouldn’t like to have their child taught by a retired CPA or registered nurse? These teachers actually did something for a living.
The mask is off. They are no longer even pretending to promote literacy.
Store Clerk: what can I do for you.
Customer: Just gimme dat.
Clerk: What is a dat.
Customer: U dissing me.
and you know the rest of the story.
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