My guess, which is already quite small, is reduced even further in light of this revoltin’ development.

to a boring, table-flat geographical and cultural wasteland populated by semi-evolved, ape-like religious fanatics who think education is propaganda?

Not, I think, on the wish-list of any teacher worthy of their training.

to give one example.

Oklahoma? Hmm...

would be the price of housing. Sure, teachers make more in CA but not enough to afford to buy a home in most places. That being said, in decades of teaching in CA I do not remember one teacher moving to OK or even considering it.

They know too much about it to teach in OK. The Republiklan Party hates the constitution and only picks and chooses what they like. Such as only a few words out of context on the second amendment. They do the same thing about the bible. They only pick and choose a couple verses and ignore the inconvenient rest of it

My point is that if the tests were honest and true, then the only people who would not pass are the ones suffering from Faux News induced brain damage. It sounds like these tests, in actuality, check to see if the teacher can’t think, doesn’t know civics, and has no understanding of basic biology

It's a test of political conformity

Zero.

Teacher pay in those blue states is close to six figures. Last I heard (which I confess was a few years ago), teacher salaries in OK barely hit $40k and many/most work a 2nd job

https://apnews.com/general-news-961ecf8c165e4c15897e8a4ce7bc230c

Fuck Ryan Walters and his Taliban agenda. Also fuck PragerU.

The spigot of hate has slowed down

A wagon?

If they are losing teachers won't this requirement make it worse?

I guess the first lesson for teachers is to study which state to cross off you list of potential areas to put down roots.

… make things worse for themselves if it means it will hamper/annoy “the Libs”.

Oklahoma is allegedly ranked consistently in the bottom 3 states. You're only sending one "clear message" here buddy.

A rose is still a rose.

I think the average IQ of Oklahoma educators must have declined by between 5% and 10%. Any teacher or professor seeking to move to Oklahoma, and expecting to stay in their profession, is either very brave, or else someone I would never permit near my children under any circumstances, let alone as their educator.

But I have never heard of a teacher moving from CA to OKie, That would be a $30k to $40k drop in pay. In a State where the republicans hate public school teachers.

A lot of these schools do not teach or encourage critical thinking.

P.S. Who would want to relocate to Oklahoma?

"We’re raising a generation of patriots, not activists,...."
Says the anti-woke activist who wouldn't know patriotism if it bit him in the ass and on the nose at the same time!

Sounds like “activism” to me.

quotes from Jesus about the rich and helping the poor.

They seem to make OK a mecca to teach in, but they are still not going to get a crowd pounding at their doors to enroll as teachers in OK. Not with this attitude of other states, it's kind of snobbish, eh?

Classroom sizes are growing in some places, in others, everyone is trying to get their federal vouchers for their Christian schools. Of course, with that POS Watters in control sooner than later all schools in OK will be "Christian".