How do you deal with a teacher shortage?
New Jersey has the answer! (https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4288367/posts)
Heck, we’re talking bodies in the classroom. A new law passed on Jan. 1 drops the Praxis Core Test, which required persons applying for a teacher’s certificate to demonstrate basic knowledge of reading, writing, and arithmetic.
Those standards have now been erased. May I suggest some new ones, more compatible with today’s public schools?
- Teacher candidate must be able to sit at his desk without falling off the chair.
- Candidate must prove he can find his car in the school parking lot.
- All teachers must join the union, the New Jersey Education Assn. (The National Education Assn. is solidly behind this.)
- Each candidate must show that he/she is older than his/her students.
- Five attempts to pass the test are permitted. At the last minute, the State Dept. of Education rejected a measure requiring teachers to know more than their students.
Appalling but not unsurprising.
Oh, boy, now what? I thought many teachers were questionable even back in my sons’ day. It is much worse now.
What a joke.
Yeah, we’re laughin’ all the way to the tax collector.
How about #5 – what test can they take five times? Questions about what gender are they most the time and how many pronouns they like to be called by? Maybe basic skill in checkers and the rules for foreplay.
I can’t imagine someone now totally unqualified to teach school in NJ.