Posted on 12/01/2023 8:07:13 AM PST by Salman
TRENTON, N.J. (CITC) — Aspiring teachers in New Jersey are no longer required to prove they are proficient in reading, writing and math.
Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law Monday the elimination of the state's basic skills test requirement. Passing the exam was previously required for teachers to become certified if they did not score in the top one-third percentile of the SAT, ACT or GRE.
Under the new law, teachers can now skip the exam and instead receive an alternate teaching certificate. After four years of employment at a state-approved school, which includes public and charter schools, the educators will then receive a standard teaching certificate.
The elimination was long cheered by the state's teachers union, which called the basic skills test an "unnecessary barrier."
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Those considerations presume the teachers can read and write.
The Nations downward spiral continues to accelerate. That sudden stop at the bottom is going to be ugly.
As long as you can preach the climate change gospel, you’re hired.
And Sodomy.
This is a move to pander to minorities AND to recruit teachers into a profession increasingly devoted not to education but to indoctrination. You will now recruit people with stumbling English skills, who are no better than the average Joe on the street at teaching. It’s an art, a skill not everyone has.
Education without "basic skills" becomes a joke. Home schooling and private schools -- both parochial and independent -- are rising in number. As it should be.
The new phrase will be "if you can't read this, thank a Democrat, union teacher."
"New Jersey drops basic skills requirement for new teachers: 'Caved to ... union demands [??? emphasis added]'"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
If the number of New Jersey (NJ) voting parents who want their children to have basic skills is greater than the number of union members, then corrupt Congress is not doing its constitutionally enumerated duty to guarantee the parents a republican form of government.
"Article IV, Section 4 (4.4): The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government [emphasis added], and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."
All patriots in the nation need to come to the rescue of NJ parents by primarying your beloved but worthless federal career lawmakers in 2024 since they aren't lifting a finger to protect voting parents.
It’s worth noting that unions (as corrupt as they are) have no power of curricula, hiring practices, school discipline, etc. Yes, the can demand, squawk, and spread some dollars around.
But trash decisions like this one are entirely on state legislators and governors. They are moving in the exact opposite direction of what’s needed in the schools.
I’m somehow not surprised. It has become way too typical of our politicial leaders, of which union afiliation affords, of one of the two ways to fix somthing. One is throw money at it. The other is normally to get rid of it and set something up to get rid of for change down the road as going from one end of the scale to the other is not workable, like this time.
So instead of finding a way to fix the problem they are giving the problem a fast track to harm the kids by getting rid of the check and balance. It’s nothing more than a crapshoot then. The schoolboard should step in and find a way to compromise and still have control of the invitation to substandard education. Otherwised they are no different than the failure of the union to make sure they are providing qualified instruction.
Sounds like another organization we know of...congress.
wy69
I’m somehow not surprised. It has become way too typical of our politicial leaders, of which union afiliation affords, of one of the two ways to fix somthing. One is throw money at it. The other is normally to get rid of it and set something up to get rid of for change down the road as going from one end of the scale to the other is not workable, like this time.
So instead of finding a way to fix the problem they are giving the problem a fast track to harm the kids by getting rid of the check and balance. It’s nothing more than a crapshoot then. The schoolboard should step in and find a way to compromise and still have control of the invitation to substandard education. Otherwised they are no different than the failure of the union to make sure they are providing qualified instruction.
Sounds like another organization we know of...congress.
wy69
NJ has become an awful place to live bad for years but so much worse now
New Jersey drops basic skills requirement for new teachers.
Today jew gunna learn how to say your bowls........
ANY PARENTS who would send their kids to schools like this in NJ is a VERY BAD PARENT!
“...teachers union, which called the basic skills test an “unnecessary barrier.”
Just axe me.
It’s not so much about the union as it is about this:
“This is a move to pander to minorities”
This is discriminatory.
Leftists ruin everything. Everything.
“New Jersey drops basic skills requirement for new teachers: ‘Caved to ... union demands’...”
What? The kids aren’t dumb enough??
Maybe it takes more qualifications to be a manicurist than to teach school. No offense to manicurists 😁
The dumb making the next generation just as dumb.
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