Arizona public school education

https://www.salon.com/2022/07/01/schools-out-forever-arizona-moves-to-public-education-with-new-universal-voucher-law/

From the great state that brought us Kirsten Senema comes a school voucher law, signed by Arizona's Republican governor, that allows parents to opt out of "any public school that fails to educate their children or reflect their values."

In case you can't read between the lines, Arizona's Republican-controlled House passed a measure to change their constitution to ban CRT. You read that right: they don't want to make CRT merely illegal, they want it to be made unconstitutional in their state. So you can guess what kind of "values" this red state is referring.

Which brings us to this: Arizona has now declared that teachers no longer need a college degree:

https://www.salon.com/2022/07/12/we-dont-need-no-education-now-arizona-says-teachers-dont-require-college-degrees/

No college degree needed to be a teacher in Arizona. Let that sink in.

Arizona had a very serious shortage of teachers, which Republicans claim is their motivation for allowing uneducated teachers in public schools. However: Arizona has the *lowest* salaries for teachers in the country. Part of the reason why is that Arizona is pumping money into these idiotic school vouchers rather than funding teachers.

Charter and private school teachers in Arizona do not not need any special license or certification to teach kids. This means that if a parent wants to send their kids to a school that teaches creationism or that slavery wasn't actually bad, the state will actually pay for your vouchers to do so.

Here's the cherry on top: this may spread to other conservative states. Remember that quote I posted? That came from David Berliner, an education psychologist at Arizona State University and former president of the American Educational Research Association. Here is his quote in full:

"Every red state in the country should follow [Ducey's] lead," since the law "gives every family a right to exit any public school that fails to educate their children or reflect their values."

This is what you can expect from the on-coming red-wave.

@vivify

"Every red state in the country should follow [Ducey's] lead," since the law "gives every family a right to exit any public school that fails to educate their children or reflect their values."

This is what you can expect from the on-coming red-wave.
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Dude, I'd take this over forced WOKE-ism in the classroom any day.

@vivify

You're just mad because people are fed up with the "black victimhood" and gender crap.

@vivify said
https://www.salon.com/2022/07/01/schools-out-forever-arizona-moves-to-public-education-with-new-universal-voucher-law/

From the great state that brought us Kirsten Senema comes a school voucher law, signed by Arizona's Republican governor, that allows parents to opt out of "any public school that fails to educate their children or reflect their values."

In case you can't ...[text shortened]... -require-college-degrees/

No college degree needed to be a teacher in Arizona. Let that sink in.

@earl-of-trumps said
@vivify

"Every red state in the country should follow [Ducey's] lead," since the law "gives every family a right to exit any public school that fails to educate their children or reflect their values."

This is what you can expect from the on-coming red-wave.
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Dude, I'd take this over forced WOKE-ism in the classroom any day.

@beowulf said
@vivify

You're just mad because people are fed up with the "black victimhood" and gender crap.

@vivify said
Arizona had a very serious shortage of teachers, which Republicans claim is their motivation for allowing uneducated teachers in public schools. However: Arizona has the *lowest* salaries for teachers in the country. Part of the reason why is that Arizona is pumping money into these idiotic school vouchers rather than funding teachers.

Charter and private school teachers ...[text shortened]... r children or reflect their values."[/i]

This is what you can expect from the on-coming red-wave.

@suzianne said
It's a race to the bottom of the barrel.

@shavixmir said
I totally agree.

You’re creating whole generations living in fantasy worlds with no clear distinction between what actually is and what’s make-belief (mental constructs).

Whether it’s extreme wokeism or extreme republicanism… both are just flip sides of the same kind of moronity. The belief that the individual’s interpretation of reality is more important than actual reality.

@earl-of-trumps said
Dude, I'd take this over forced WOKE-ism in the classroom any day.

@shavixmir said
Whether it’s extreme wokeism or extreme republicanism… both are just flip sides of the same kind of moronity.

@vivify said
https://www.salon.com/2022/07/01/schools-out-forever-arizona-moves-to-public-education-with-new-universal-voucher-law/

From the great state that brought us Kirsten Senema comes a school voucher law, signed by Arizona's Republican governor, that allows parents to opt out of "any public school that fails to educate their children or reflect their values."

In case you can't ...[text shortened]... -require-college-degrees/

No college degree needed to be a teacher in Arizona. Let that sink in.

@suzianne said
It's a race to the bottom of the barrel.

@vivify said
Not at all. Wokeism is merely annoying.

Republicanism is actually damaging the country by taking away rights like abortion, changing election laws to skew votes in their favor, or blocking gun legislation aimed at stopping America's insane amount of gun deaths.

People like Bill Maher keep pushing this idea that idiots demanding twenty different pronouns is equivalent ...[text shortened]... " all you want but claiming it's a problem on par with what Republicans are doing is getting tiring.