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.
Oklahoma: “Fine. We don’t need no teachers, anyhow.”
Luckily that is completely irrelevant because it’s Oklahoma
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.
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.”
“state where escalators are a novelty and there are more cows than humans.”
Hey I resemble that remark!
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.
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.
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
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.
Oh, I’m sure teachers from progressive states are just dying to move to fucking Oklahoma. I needed a good laugh, thanks.
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!
