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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. More
DEI baby, DEI!
Just What Are They Going to Teach in School?
Three guesses and the first two don’t count!
File under: How To Foul Up The Next Generation
This is why we need to dissmantle the Dept. of Education!!
They prolly just need to speak Spanish and Chinese, English not so much.
A pattern we see all too often. We see it in the military, law enforcement, med school, aviation schools, scholastic venues getting rid of proficiency standards, applicants are too stupid, fat, lazy, or insufficiently motivated to achieve.
And this is why employers looking beyond our borders for qualified workers is getting so much scrutiny of late.
carjacking/home invasion, twerking
This morning I read an essay which has bearing on this issue. With the proliferation of technology, and specifically Chromebooks issued to all students and teaching staff, teaching has become more and more automated. Students “learn” the subject via various programs, the software monitors the student’s progress, tests are taken and scored on line, and the results are entered into cloud programs for the teacher’s convenience. Theoretically the teaching staff exists to help students who need assistance with their programmed learning, but we all know how that goes.
Instead, the teaching staff seems to concentrate more and more on behavior management. Even in this endeavor, the environment is controlled; you can do this with unruly students, but you can’t do that. More and more parents are threatening or using litigation to “protect” their children, and the teaching staff is being relegated to nothing more than factory floor managers supervising their students while automation does the actual work.
The bottom line is that some teachers no longer need basic skills in the subject they are teaching – that’s not part of the job requirement. Of course critical thinking should be a large part of education but is no longer emphasized or, in some situations, even taught, and the goal seems to be to bring everyone down to the same standardized level.
Looks like all that will be left for them to teach is “Orange Man Bad” and “Transgenderism”.
…..what are they going to teach in school?
Spanish.
Communism.
They will teach Communism.
Just like they always have, but now without distractions that may make the serfs harder to rule.
Keep your children out of the government school systems.
@Wyatt–
I saw that essay, too. It was very well-written, but horribly depressing to read, as a teacher. It made me both glad and sorry to be retired. I mourn for the incalculable losses.
As the old saying goes…”those who can…do, those who cannot…teach.”
Wyatt – after reading your post about education becoming more and more automated, with the advent of AI the goal will become: “What won’t be taught” to keep humans methodically dumbed-down on a controlled slope.
… AI will eleiminate that which it deems unnecessary to teach since AI will fill the need.
Glad to see that illiterate standards have finally come down low enough to include ‘those’ folks.
Safe and effective removal of a lodged gerbil?
Harry – that goes on NOW. Why do you think the government controls a monopoly gulag of these day prisons all over the country? Why do you think they want to control homeschooling and private schools through “school choice” money redistribution schemes?
@Mary: “Depressing” is the adjective I was searching for. Technology has gone from being a tool to being the primary mechanism for teaching.
@Wyatt–
Real teaching happens in the interactions between hearts, minds, souls, and imaginations.
Well, not many people knew reading, writing and mathematics in 1669……
“teaching has become more and more automated. Students “learn” the subject via various programs,”
My daughters a 1st grade school teacher up in extreme NorCal. About half her students are right off the rez. Most of their parent are either drug addicted or drunks and the mothers never stopped while they were pregnant. Each one of them has their own set of learning disabilities. Try and automate that.
@Brad: the article I referenced was written by an aide who worked just outside of the Appalachian area. My impression is that many of the students were in the same boat as your daughter’s pupils.
My old hometown has many similar problems; many centered around parents who can’t and/or won’t take any interest in their children. The school relies heavily on Chromebook teaching tools, but I don’t know that particular software. I do know that many of the teaching staff spend more time on behavior management than actual teaching – yet the graduation rate is very high.
Kudos to your daughter – that type of teaching presents a lot of challenges.
Wyatt
I can’t help wondering what the Department of Education thinks of this? If they want to implement automated education they should do it at the college level. But then the students wouldn’t get the added benefit of some crackpot instructor twisting their minds with their socialist views.
My daughter has her masters in some sort of child development. So she the schools go to for diagnosing learning disabilities. She can make recommendations but the parents rarely follow up. A never ending cycle.
Each year she brings in a Thanksgiving Dinner for the class on the last day before the vacation break. Otherwise these kids would never have one. She clearly takes after her mother. LOL
@Anonymous Tuesday, 31 December 2024, 11:24 at 11:24 am
“carjacking/home invasion, twerking”
The best definition of new education I’ve ever heard!
They’ll teach what cucumbers and condoms have in common.