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.
Oh, I’m sure teachers from progressive states are just dying to move to fucking Oklahoma. I needed a good laugh, thanks.
Luckily that is completely irrelevant because it’s Oklahoma
Oklahoma: “Fine. We don’t need no teachers, anyhow.”
No competent teachers.
It’s not like any Oklahoma industies needs edumacated peoples.
no how.
ABSOLUTELY NO READING!
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.
People from Bakersfield returning to their ancestral homeland?
Oklahoma is trying for the western Floriduh position.
Nazis
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.
By design.
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.
Never thought I’d see a post resonate so perfectly with my own thoughts as well about being in Oklahoma. And this is coming from someone who comes from a very conservative family, worked with very conservative people for most of my adult life, and went through our failed education system. Shit sucks man, but luckily I’m in a position where I get to see that there’s people in power who also see the sad state the state is in and are looking to change it. But, I’m also not holding my breath for change…just hoping.
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.
Lesser Oklahoma regresses on!
to prove they share the state’s conservative political
values.propagandaComing, of course, from the free speech idiot
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!
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
Fascism always attacks education so that the people don’t know what is true or not, and are not taught the tools to figure things out on their own.
Oklahoma is a prime example of fascism in action.
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.
