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.
Luckily that is completely irrelevant because it’s Oklahoma
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
Teachers from California and New York who want to work in Oklahoma public schools
So nobody ever.
It used to be a sort of soft benefit that teachers could always find work. It’s not like many industries, where work is only available in certain areas. Like if you were a teacher and wanted to just pack up and move across the country, you could be reasonably certain that you’d be able to find work quickly. It meant that if you needed to suddenly relocate for some external reason, (family health issues, spouse got a new job, politics, etc) that you could do so without a ton of fuss.
Imagine if you were a teacher from California, married to an electrical engineer. They get a job at Texas Instruments, and need to relocate to Texas. You’re able to afford a McMansion with the California money, so you find a nice house and are able to find work in whichever neighborhood you happen to land in. The only real consideration is based on your spouse’s job, not yours. Oklahoma is trying to change that, because now your job prospects will be based on whether or not you’re willing and able to pass this propaganda test.
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.
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%)
i am not trying to be contrarian, i just want additional info here - do you have any resources that describe the levels of literacy and what they mean for these studies? (its hard for my brain to come to a conclusion without that info <3)
i want to compare these to different state literacy levels on this spectrum as well.
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.
to prove they share the state’s conservative political
values.propagandaComing, of course, from the free speech idiot
Oklahoma: “Fine. We don’t need no teachers, anyhow.”
No competent teachers.
It’s not like any Oklahoma industies needs edumacated peoples.
no how.
Nazis
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.
my cousin is a teacher that left ca because it is expensive here comparitive to teacher salaries. granted she now lives in iowa, not oklahoma, but its still just because of the money vs cost of living.
Maybe moving there for more affordable housing? People are unironically told to stop complaining about unaffordable housing and move to the Midwest.
Yes, the Midwest is cheaper than the coasts.
But there is a LOT of middle ground between “Expensive coastal state” and “state where escalators are a novelty and there are more cows than humans.”
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.
ABSOLUTELY NO READING!
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!
Oklahoma is trying for the western Floriduh position.
Lesser Oklahoma regresses on!
