Posted on 12/29/2021 4:28:15 AM PST by MtnClimber
Michigan’s Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who flip-flopped into supporting vaccine mandates just a few days ago, now recognizes a severe staffing shortage for schoolteachers. Her solution? Signing into law permission for other school employees to teach in their place. John Rigolizzo reports in the Daily Wire:
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed a bill into law that would attempt to alleviate a growing shortage of teachers in the state by allowing school staff to serve as substitutes.
Michigan House Bill 4294 “will temporarily allow schools to employ an individual without certification who already works at the school to substitute teach through the end of the 2021-2022 school year,” the governor’s office said in a press release Monday announcing the signing. That includes school staff such as secretaries, office staff, teacher’s aides, library aides, and even cafeteria workers and bus drivers, as long as they have a high school diploma or GED, FOX 2 Detroit reported.
Wait a minute! We are told that school bus drivers already in such short supply that in some states National Guard troops have been called up as fill-ins. If Whitmer re-purposes bus drivers as teachers, will she have to start calling out the Guard to replace them? Why not save trouble and just call out the Guard to teach?
Whitmer is also challenging the new gospel of the left, teachers – or as they like to term them, “educators” – are the only people to qualify for designing curricula. The all-powerful (in the Democrat party) teachers’ unions certainly think that teachers are special breed apart, possessed of superior wisdom unfathomable to those who didn’t attend a school of education.
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These leftists seem genuinely surprised at the consequences of their actions.
They will likely do a better job that these leftist teachers do.
Hope they get paid on the same scale as the marxist Teachers .
This might work if they were going to teach Home Economics or Driver’s Education, math and science not so much
So for those keeping score, the Left thinks parents should have zero say in how their children are educated, but it’s perfectly okey dokey if Slappy the Janitor or Marge the Lunch Lady teaches them.
I’m going to bet that the Teacher’s Unions will have no problem with this as long as they can collect the union dues.
Who knew so many math experts were being wasted driving our young scholars to school?
In a normal world, even an idiot would recognizance that the skills, education and training are not interchangeable, but today, why not? Kids would probably be better off with a bus driver as their teacher.
This is what a bankrupt state looks like.
“Michigan House Bill 4294 “will temporarily allow schools to employ an individual without certification who already works at the school to substitute teach through the end of the 2021-2022 school year,”
While I have no use for Whitless, this is a house bill, WTF? This is on the legislature, not whitless.
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I thought this was the Bee. But no...
I used to know a biker gang member who drove a school bus. Hair, leather, beard... he NEVER had any trouble on his route.
Here’s a link to the bill...
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2021-2022/billenrolled/House/htm/2021-HNB-4294.htm
Looks like this is only through June of 2022.
And they have to hire bus drivers and lunch ladies since, I’d I read it right, only district employees can be used as emergency subs.
came here to say this very thing!
Based on end of course proficiency scores I have seen, the cafeteria workers will do just as well teaching math and science as the certified teachers.
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