All they need is an “alternative certificate.”
[Thanks to Susan for the nooze tip.]
Oh, boy! New Jersey has lowered its standards for getting a teaching certificate! No more bothering with basic skills (https://midmichigannow.com/news/nation-world/new-jersey-drops-basic-skills-requirement-for-new-teachers-caved-to-teacher-union-demands-education-association-reading-writing-math-proficiency-phil-murphy-crisis-in-the-classroom).
There was a test for proficiency in reading, writing, and basic math, and you had to pass it to get a teaching certificate. Well, the unions didn’t like that! And here in Joisey, what the New Jersey Education Assn. wants, the New Jersey Education Assn. gets. NJEA owns the Democrat Party in New Jersey.
Now, you apply for an “alternative teaching certificate”–show up and fog a mirror, and you’re in–and if you can stick it out for four years, you get a full certificate.
I took “teaching” courses in the 1970s and even then, just about anybody could have come in off the street and passed the tests. I shudder to think of what the State of New Jersey now considers “too hard.” But the NJEA didn’t want the test, so the test had to go. Gotta keep those campaign contributions coming!
Question! Why does anybody still send their kids to public schools? Now you won’t even be able to feel sure that your child’s “teacher” will know any more than the kiddies do.
Yeahbut, yeahbut! They know their Far Left ideology, and that’s all that’s expected of them.
That’s a shame. The teachers I had in the public schools were a mixed bag, some quite good, and others just looking for a meal ticket, but most of them came across as well educated and basically competent. I’m afraid that is no longer the case.
If it can spout Far Left booshwa, it can “teach.”
“basic skills test an “unnecessary barrier.” Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha…. This is nuts!
Where do you even begin with **** like this? “Oh, but we WANT ignorant moral imbeciles educating our children!” ???