Only a Demtard would think this is a good idea. Of course, the unions are on board with this.
A New Jersey law that removes a requirement for teachers to pass a reading, writing and mathematics test for certification will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2025.
The law, Act 1669, was passed by Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy as part of the state’s 2025 budget in June in an effort to address a shortage of teachers in the state, according to the New Jersey Monitor. Individuals seeking an instructional certificate will no longer need to pass a “basic skills” test administered by the state’s Commissioner of Education.
“We need more teachers,” Democratic Sen. Jim Beach, who sponsored the bill, said according to the New Jersey Monitor. “This is the best way to get them.”
New Jersey is especially in need of math and science teachers, according to an annual report from the state’s education department.
Just months earlier, Murphy signed a similar bill into law that created an alternative pathway for teachers to sidestep the testing requirement. A powerful teachers union, the New Jersey Education Association, was a driving force behind the bill, calling the testing requirement “an unnecessary barrier to entering the profession.” Teachers in the state are paid an average of $81,102 annually, according to the National Education Association.
Basic skills in math, writing, reading and math are preventing people from entering the teaching profession. That’s a clear fucking indication that they don’t have the capacity to teach and shouldn’t be any where near a classroom.
New Jersey followed the example of New York, which scrapped basic literacy requirements for teachers in 2017 in the name of “diversity.” (RELATED: How Democrats Lost The Plot On Education)
Other states such as California and Arizona also lower requirements for teacher certification by implementing fast-track options for substitute teachers to become full-time educators and eliminating exam requirements in order to make up for shortages in the field that were worsened by Covid, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
As students struggle to regain learning losses caused by school closures during the pandemic, some states, such as Massachusetts, have opted to lower testing requirements for students in order to allow more to pass rather than make up for the lost education.
Teachers unions continue to hold major bargaining power in some blue states, pushing legislation that protects teachers despite their failure to improve learning outcomes for students. Only about half of New York students in grades three through eight tested as proficient in English and Math in the 2022 to 2023 school year despite the state spending almost twice the national average on education and New York teachers remaining some of the highest-paid in the country, according to the National Education Association.
Murphy’s office did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
K-12 education in the USA has been deficient for so long that future teachers cannot pass minimum requirements. Now, they’re passing it into law.
Instead of reading, writing, and arithmetic, students are subjected to grooming, sexualization, and tranny restrooms.
Leftwing academic intelligentsia has been brainwashing school children with Marxism, Islam, adult sex acts, and pro-illegal alien propaganda. Now, hate for everything Caucasian is part of standard classroom instruction. The ‘identities’ range from “white supremacist” to “white abolitionist”. I’m guessing their version of “abolitionist” has to do with eradicating white people. This is how the left tries to change the language for their own benefit. Cancel culture against whites includes eliminating grading standards, telling bi-racial students they should confront their ‘white dominance’, telling school kids they’re “born racist”, and that “all white people perpetuate systematic racism”.
Leftwing doctrine in America’s schools has become a malignancy. Academic intelligentsia wants complete control of your kids and it will use union propaganda, insults, dismissive epithets, and force to get it.
The State knows how to raise your children better than you. They’ve even said it out loud.