NY Charter Schools To Address Teacher Shortage By Certifying Its Own Employees
26th July 2017
New York charter schools may soon be able to hire and certify its own teachers instead of having to go through the state, according to state regulations announced Wednesday.
Good. Put control of schools as locally as possible. That’s where it belongs.
The new rules also reflects a battle between Democrat control of New York state schools and a push to expand charter schools from Republicans.
Democrats, party of the totalitarian future.
Teachers’ unions and education experts criticize the proposal, saying that candidates can qualify too easily. “We would be skeptical of people who say we should have more flexible pathways into medicine, or into becoming an airplane pilot, these are activities on which other people’s lives depend,” said Columbia University professor. “I think it’s a terrible disservice to children to act as if their teachers don’t have to be prepared,” he added.
Note the unspoken assumption: People who aren’t prepared Our Way aren’t prepared — as if the current failing schools are good advertisements for the Our Way of preparation. Their problem is that, without a lock on the teacher credentialing process, they have no way of imposing their diversity box-checking and Fashionable Victim way-greasing at the students’ expense.