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2025-01-06 -Great Cultural Revolution

New Jersey ends basic reading and writing skills test requirement for teachers

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-01-06 01:37|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 What did I say yesterday?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2025-01-06 02:35|| 2025-01-06 02:35|| Front Page Top

#2 We need more teachers

Actually, you don't. You need more union members. If you don't have those who can pass basic reading and writing skill tests then there is no longer a need for 'public' education. Start printing the vouchers for parents who actually care about their children getting an education.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-01-06 07:15|| 2025-01-06 07:15|| Front Page Top

#3 My high school Physics 'teacher' read the text book to us. Proof he could read.

I practiced electricity, with a paper clip.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-01-06 08:04|| 2025-01-06 08:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Sorry to hear that, Skidmark. Back in my day we built project boards with wiring, relays, magnets, buzzers, lights and switches (using 6V batteries for power), and this was in the 8th grade.

By High School we were almost blowing stuff up.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2025-01-06 09:12|| 2025-01-06 09:12|| Front Page Top

#5 By High School we were almost blowing stuff up.

AKA: Homework. Tennis ball cannons were the gateway drug

Posted by Frank G 2025-01-06 10:17|| 2025-01-06 10:17|| Front Page Top

#6 I think they're looking more for babysitters...

Posted by HeavyG 2025-01-06 10:29|| 2025-01-06 10:29|| Front Page Top

#7 Tennis balls not as fun as potatoes.

Posted by no mo uro 2025-01-06 11:26|| 2025-01-06 11:26|| Front Page Top

#8 This may be a good thing for New Jersey. I see it as an opportunity to increase the number of teachers AND reduce the homeless population. As a side benefit, more teachers means more political power for the teacher's union.

"But what about the kids?", you say. They weren't learning squat anyway. Only about 50% of the NJ kids are proficient in reading, 40% in math, and less than 30% in science. Not exactly fodder for the future. Unless we are talking a Soylent Green(tm) is People future.

Posted by SteveS 2025-01-06 12:19|| 2025-01-06 12:19|| Front Page Top

#9 I don’t think the initiative will have much impact on the competence of teachers in affluent schools. I think they likely have trouble staffing up folks in places like Newark. This is authorization to just use warm bodies. The performance levels are already so low there that I can’t see there being a resulting measurable drop in tests scores.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-01-06 14:00|| 2025-01-06 14:00|| Front Page Top

#10 they likely have trouble staffing up folks in places like Newark

She'll be right at home.

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-01-06 14:42|| 2025-01-06 14:42|| Front Page Top

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