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!
PragerU is like, all-caps conservative.
So would New York contract the Church of Satan to get the same program going?
The Satanic Temple. CoS is different.
They are beyond conservative. They want to teach revisionist history
Call it what it is, a political loyalty test.
Want to teach in Oklahoma?
No.
Some people are into humanitarian missions
Because to teach there you’d have to live there.
Teaching IS “woke”. It requires empathy for the students to present lessons that will actually be absorbed and incorporated into their understanding of the world.
They don’t want teachers anymore, they want babysitters who will spout propoganda with no deviation or critical thought
They’re only teachers if they’re from the woke region of society. These clowns are sparkling indoctrination technicians.
the state ranks 46th in overall child well-being, 49th in education, 45th in health, and 40th in family and community.
And they only want to make it even worse. How do people in OK go along with this shit?
The kids likely can’t even spell “woke”.
The majority of people in charge of our education system don’t even have kids in the system… School boards are chock full of retired boomers who moved to OK after their kids were fully grown. And then there are the massive amount of religious nuts… Oklahoma does not offer education and hasn’t for decades. No one what wants to change that can get elected because of aforementioned boomers and religious zealots.
“Thank god for Mississippi!”
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.)
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
teachers from so-called “woke” states would also have to pass a new test of their knowledge of the U.S. Constitution, American exceptionalism, and “their grasp of fundamental biological differences between boys and girls.”
Question 5:
America is: a. Pretty good b. Great c. The greatest d. THE GREATEREST!!! AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!
Better to be a slave than killed! Columbus was so merciful to the Taino!
Everyone’s shitty, so I get to be shitty too!
Jfc. :/
You know what? Actually, I don’t.
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
So prove that you’re an ignoramus, you can teach.
How far do I bow down?
