Youngkin reduces teacher qualifications

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Perhaps your “unqualified” teachers will actually be more successful teachers than your so-called qualified teachers, OP.

Your teaching degree has never been proven to be all that impressive if you look at student outcome of homeschooled students.

Why is that, OP?

Lol, because the family has the economic privilege of being able to afford homeschooling, and because the student is not vying for attention with 27 other people?

News flash: people with full time governesses and tutors also score better than people who are part of large classes with children of diverse backgrounds and learning needs?! It’s laughable that you think that is because the parent is a better teacher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Perhaps your “unqualified” teachers will actually be more successful teachers than your so-called qualified teachers, OP.

Your teaching degree has never been proven to be all that impressive if you look at student outcome of homeschooled students.

Why is that, OP?

Hahaha. We’re not impressed with your homeschoolers. Sorry. Bet you “taught” math by “learning to bake.”

[Anonymous]

I’m so amused that he’s going to start looking into why people don’t want to become teachers. That’s funny. Didn’t he start that tattletale hotline so people could complain if a teacher said something liberal?! And no- lowering the standards will NOT make education better. They need to pay qualified teachers more, and monitor the amount of central office staff. A lot of those middle management positions are BS, and do little to support the work teachers are doing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thoughts on this article. Youngkin reducing teacher requirements. So he wants unqualified people to teach our children after he drove away all the qualified, experienced and licensed teachers. Way to go everyone who didn't vote in the governor's election!

The Washington Post: Youngkin criticizes trans rules, eases path to becoming a teacher in Va..
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/09/01/youngkin-virginia-teacher-shortage-gender-policy/

Thus won’t be any different than the last decade.
Most of the teachers my kids has had over the years were unqualified.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Distract the uneducated with the CRT bogeyman, then lower standards so you can pay teachers less. Looks like the plan is working beautifully.

Yes and he stole board of education appointments do there is now a majority of right wing nuts on it. Their first meeting showed what kind of nonsense they plan to push on all districts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If he didn’t do that, there would be no teachers. And no, Youngkin didn’t drive any teachers away. Ask any of them that have left the profession. Not one would have Youngkin on their list of reasons.

Youngkin literally started a tip line for people to anonymously report teachers they didn’t like.

[Anonymous]

All states with Republican governors are doing this because they know it will fail. When peoples kids receive subpar “education” from random adults with zero content expertise or knowledge of pedagogy or child development, they’ll want to leave public school. Imagine Nancy Kerrigan having her own bodyguard bust her knee with a pipe. It’s that.

-actual licensed teacher with a masters degree in what I do

[Anonymous]

Did things like his tip line contribute to an environment in VA that made it unpleasant for many teachers? Of course. As parents we absolutely cannot think we have no responsibility for the exodus. Look at the fights on DCUM over the last two years including the countless threads insulting and degrading teachers. Collectively we berate teachers for a whole host of things related to our individual children. We send to school children who haven't been taught how to appropriately behave so teachers spend their time breaking up fights, dealing with weapons in school, fighting the inevitable misuse of technology on school property. We criticize what they do teach, what they don't teach, and how they teach.

Add in all the legal requirements the state and federal government have piled on testing and reporting requirements such that teachers are constantly dealing with pressure to have kids who perform well on SOLs, meet the needs of every single child with an IEP or 504 (I have a child with an IEP myself and it's a lot of work required by law) and so on. From there, look at pay scales - we do not respect teaching as a profession compared to other nations.

No I do not believe we need to follow Florida's steps and allow completely unqualified, uneducated and unprepared adults become teachers. But I'm open to ideas to making the profession more appealing and potentially open pathways for mid-career professional who might be good teachers but need additional training to find a way into the classroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s part of his plan to kill public schools.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You know what I would like? If the Post fired Hannah Natanson and hired a real reporter who finds more than just two Republican sources for every single goddamn article she writes. It's pathetic that I know exactly who she will be quoting every time she writes an article - it's either Stacy Langton or Rory Cooper. FIND REAL REPUTABLE SOURCES and then maybe I'll read your articles. What a crock of shit, I'm so tired of her constant pandering to the right wing agenda.

I think a reporter for a major newspaper whose beat is PUBLIC SCHOOLS should be someone who went to public schools all the way through.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Perhaps your “unqualified” teachers will actually be more successful teachers than your so-called qualified teachers, OP.

Your teaching degree has never been proven to be all that impressive if you look at student outcome of homeschooled students.

Why is that, OP?

Your assertion is questionable: https://responsiblehomeschooling.org/should-we-be-concerned-about-low-homeschool-sat-taking/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Perhaps your “unqualified” teachers will actually be more successful teachers than your so-called qualified teachers, OP.

Your teaching degree has never been proven to be all that impressive if you look at student outcome of homeschooled students.

Why is that, OP?

Child brides?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If he didn’t do that, there would be no teachers. And no, Youngkin didn’t drive any teachers away. Ask any of them that have left the profession. Not one would have Youngkin on their list of reasons.

Found the Youngkin support - resistant to facts and reason.

[Anonymous]

He’s a nightmare Virginia

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You know what I would like? If the Post fired Hannah Natanson and hired a real reporter who finds more than just two Republican sources for every single goddamn article she writes. It's pathetic that I know exactly who she will be quoting every time she writes an article - it's either Stacy Langton or Rory Cooper. FIND REAL REPUTABLE SOURCES and then maybe I'll read your articles. What a crock of shit, I'm so tired of her constant pandering to the right wing agenda.

I think a reporter for a major newspaper whose beat is PUBLIC SCHOOLS should be someone who went to public schools all the way through.

Yeah, nothing says "I've got the public schools beat covered" like going straight from Georgetown Day School to Harvard University.

Still, it's hard to find a right-wing agenda in her writing. Scrolling through her articles, looks like about 50% are about VA GOP "book-banning" efforts, and about 40% "abortion/sex ed" stories.