Oklahoma’s new “America First” teacher certification test will require educators from California and New York to agree with conservative curriculum.
Teachers from California and New York who want to work in Oklahoma public schools will be required to pass a certification test to prove they share the state’s conservative political values.
Regardless of the subject or grade they teach, they’ll have to show they know “the biological differences between females and males” and that they agree with the state’s American history standards, which includes elements of a conspiracy theory that the Democratic Party stole the 2020 presidential election from Donald Trump, which fact checkers have said are false.
The state has no political values because it is land. The politicians of the state have those values and they can change every couple of years so it makes no sense to align everyone in the school with that. It’s just so blatantly bullshit.
This appears to be in response to Tulsa, OK running a program that incentivized people to move to Tulsa, specifically from places like CA and NY and such. A Tulsa based program offered 10K to people who moved there to live for at least one year, or to quote the group running the thing: ““We really were looking to attract knowledge workers to the city of Tulsa, which we knew would help create an economy that was resilient for the future and prepared for what’s ahead,” said Justin Harlan, managing director of Tulsa Remote”. So my first guess is that the state legislature did not like this and so is making sure that only the absolute dumbest fucking people are allowed to move there to teach. LA Times Article
to prove they share the state’s conservative political
values.propagandaComing, of course, from the free speech idiot
Hey Oklahoma, why don’t you work on fixing your busted-ass literacy rates first? You’ve got something like 20% of your adult population that can’t fucking read.
Oklahoma : 12% of adults function below basic literacy level
31% of adults are at the basic level
This means 43% of adults in Oklahoma have low literacy skills (national average is 21%)
Living in Oklahoma currently, your not wrong. Maga got a foot hold here. These people are straight up brainrotted and there is no saving them or redeeming them. I wish I could move. But if we sell our house we couldn’t afford to buy another. Also where exactly do we go to escape this hell. With Trump as president, and the GOP having control practically to all three branches. Well there just isn’t anywhere to escape tnis hell in America.
Also blue states are practically out financially reach for us poor people, or hell even what little middle class left. I had thought about when kids move out trying the van life, or at least Rv life. But shit they are starting to make that illegal to and deem anyone Living that kinda freedom as homeless and that’s illegal in the United States.
By design.
Teachers from California and New York who want to work in Oklahoma public schools
So nobody ever.
Sometimes, teachers are married and their spouses can end up needing to move somewhere for their work.
In the past, it was a small benefit that teachers could find work anywhere they went.
Is there a flood of teachers just itching to get out of NY and CA to go teach in Oklahoma?
Sounds like maybe 2 people a year might be affected.
Maybe moving there for more affordable housing? People are unironically told to stop complaining about unaffordable housing and move to the Midwest.
The best school in the state of Illinois is in central Illinois near uiuc. Teachers are paid well and col is cheaper than most places. Plus there’s corn mazes.
Oklahoma: “Fine. We don’t need no teachers, anyhow.”
No competent teachers.
It’s not like any Oklahoma industies needs edumacated peoples.
no how.
Oh no! Surely the plan to force Nazi values on OBGYN’s so effective, it’ll definitely force a value change in educators.
Oklahoma, first in fascism, 4th in grade education level!
Nazis
ABSOLUTELY NO READING!
Lesser Oklahoma regresses on!
Oklahoma is trying for the western Floriduh position.
