Hey Oklahoma, why don't you work on fixing your busted-ass literacy rates first? You've got something like 20% of your adult population that can't fucking read.
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Teachers from California and New York who want to work in Oklahoma public schools
So nobody ever.
Sometimes, teachers are married and their spouses can end up needing to move somewhere for their work.
In the past, it was a small benefit that teachers could find work anywhere they went.
It used to be a sort of soft benefit that teachers could always find work. It’s not like many industries, where work is only available in certain areas. Like if you were a teacher and wanted to just pack up and move across the country, you could be reasonably certain that you’d be able to find work quickly. It meant that if you needed to suddenly relocate for some external reason, (family health issues, spouse got a new job, politics, etc) that you could do so without a ton of fuss.
Imagine if you were a teacher from California, married to an electrical engineer. They get a job at Texas Instruments, and need to relocate to Texas. You’re able to afford a McMansion with the California money, so you find a nice house and are able to find work in whichever neighborhood you happen to land in. The only real consideration is based on your spouse’s job, not yours. Oklahoma is trying to change that, because now your job prospects will be based on whether or not you’re willing and able to pass this propaganda test.
Oklahoma: “Fine. We don’t need no teachers, anyhow.”
to prove they share the state's conservative political
values.propaganda
Coming, of course, from the free speech idiot
Is there a flood of teachers just itching to get out of NY and CA to go teach in Oklahoma?
Sounds like maybe 2 people a year might be affected.
Maybe moving there for more affordable housing? People are unironically told to stop complaining about unaffordable housing and move to the Midwest.
Yes, the Midwest is cheaper than the coasts.
But there is a LOT of middle ground between "Expensive coastal state" and "state where escalators are a novelty and there are more cows than humans."
The best school in the state of Illinois is in central Illinois near uiuc. Teachers are paid well and col is cheaper than most places. Plus there's corn mazes.
my cousin is a teacher that left ca because it is expensive here comparitive to teacher salaries. granted she now lives in iowa, not oklahoma, but its still just because of the money vs cost of living.
This appears to be in response to Tulsa, OK running a program that incentivized people to move to Tulsa, specifically from places like CA and NY and such. A Tulsa based program offered 10K to people who moved there to live for at least one year, or to quote the group running the thing: "“We really were looking to attract knowledge workers to the city of Tulsa, which we knew would help create an economy that was resilient for the future and prepared for what’s ahead,” said Justin Harlan, managing director of Tulsa Remote". So my first guess is that the state legislature did not like this and so is making sure that only the absolute dumbest fucking people are allowed to move there to teach. LA Times Article
The state has no political values because it is land. The politicians of the state have those values and they can change every couple of years so it makes no sense to align everyone in the school with that. It's just so blatantly bullshit.
Oh no! Surely the plan to force Nazi values on OBGYN's so effective, it'll definitely force a value change in educators.
Oklahoma, first in fascism, 4th in grade education level!
Oh, I'm sure teachers from progressive states are just dying to move to fucking Oklahoma. I needed a good laugh, thanks.
Fascism always attacks education so that the people don’t know what is true or not, and are not taught the tools to figure things out on their own.
Oklahoma is a prime example of fascism in action.
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