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>>Michigan Axes Basic Skills Test For Teachers<<
Michigan Teachers: “Yeah, they axed me and I done told them we don’ need no tests caus on account of we be good at what we be do irregardless.”
Pris (Bladerunner): “then we’re stupid and we’ll die.”
So let’s just draw names from the visa lottery and let them teach
That’s nothing.
New York state dropped it’s literacy test for teachers because 50% of the Hispanic teachers and 60% of the black teachers couldn’t pass it.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/03/13/ny-dropping-teacher-literacy-test-amid-claims-racism.html
Save the money - let the kids stay home and watch TV - at least ‘no harm’ is done...
Here’s the thing....around Detroit and upstate Michigan....if you had forty vacant teacher positions, then mandated that a guy or gal had to pass that exam...well, you just ended up with positions empty. Most folks have zero interest in moving to Rapid River or Gwinn. Most folks would have zero interest in taking a job in Detroit. So this is the only way to fill the slots.
You will end up with probably a quarter of the teachers being marginal or weak in the profession, but it’s better than leaving it empty.
It would be interesting to see the RESULTS of the current law before proceeding to the next idea...……………...
> “To me, the good teachers — they’re inspired and have passion. Why should they be burdened with a test that isn’t relevant to the subject matter they teach?” <
That reads like satire. But since it’s a real quote, it’s disgusting.
And it’s worth noting that Gov. Snyder and state Sen. Knollenberg are both Republicans. Can’t blame the Democrats for this one.
You are there to indoctrinate and pay dues.
No skills required.
Makes sense. Didn’t they just decide that they don’t have any duty to make kids literate in Michigan? So why bother having literate teachers?
As long as there is at least one person in Michigan who can write out government paychecks and welfare checks, why bother with education at all?
The dumbing down of America continues.
Teachers change subjects all the time. Teachers often joke openly about not having a clue about their subject, especially when they are given classes to teach like general health merely to keep them on the payroll.
Nobody's interest in the psychodramas of teachers. Don't care if they have passion and inspiration or not. Their job is the delivery of knowledge, not putting cliched posters on the wall or decorating their classrooms.
The statement is a tacit admission that teachers/education majors lack a well-rounded base of knowledge. Do we want hyper-specialists who can't relate a math problem to a moon shot or a moon shot to a discussion of lunar geology?
Teachers' cultural illiteracy has proven to be a major problem as they promote socialism, Marxism, statism, etc. Many of them have no idea what went on in Russia, Cambodia, Cuba or even Venezuela.
Fixed it.
“You do need to assess if candidates have basic skills. Can they read and write and are they mathematically literate?”
While I know I took the SAT shortly after the Dark Ages, I thought that’s what the SAT tested for? Has something changed?
Didn’t New York State recently eliminate the requirement that teachers have to be literate?
Half the country is falling all over themselves to emulate the s**thole countries. Maybe to make the illegals feel at home, I don’t know.
Not enough minorities, so penalize the achievers, reward the stupid slackers.
The people easiest to indoctrinate are the people least likely to be able to achieve basic skills. Education departments of universities are about the worst agents of indoctrination that exist in universities, probably the very worst.
It’s easier to dumb down the students if you first dumb down the teachers. Are Soros and his puppet Barry Soetoro behind this?