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We're BEYOND Cooked: Oklahoma to require ideology test for teachers from New York and California
(www.pbs.org)
Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s public schools superintendent, said Monday that any teacher coming from the two blue states will be required to pass an assessment exam administered by PragerU, an Oklahoma-based conservative nonprofit, before getting a state certification.
so let me guess they will administer this test to at MOST 1 or 2 prospective teachers a year, im guessing more like 0
the state has shit pay for teachers, no prospects.
i guess this is to trip up the 1 teacher partner of someone transferring there from the coasts for a natural gas job contract??
It doesn't matter if this will only hit 1 or 2 people per year. If it gets implemented in one state it'll spread to elsewhere. Putting it in a state where the least resistance will occur first is perfect for then spreading it elsewhere, PragerU will be pointing to the "success" in this state when their lobbying brings it forward to other states. They will spread conservative control of educational personnel this way. Controlling personnel will enable controlling education itself.
They will slice the onion.
I believe it's also a way to weaken labor's power. If I can fire you arguing you lied on your ideology test without question, the teacher's union suddenly has way less power.
Doens't Oklahoma have such bad teacher pay that people are leaving for fucking Texas? And the state has cut school funding so much that some schools have to go to a 4 day school week, because they literally can't pay a teacher to work 5 days a week, despite teachers making a pittance