New Jersey teachers are no longer required to pass basic literacy tests

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-06 15:46:28 | Updated at 2025-01-09 16:25:29 3 days ago

New Jersey teachers are no longer required to pass basic literacy tests
Not The Bee ^ | January 06, 2025 | Staff

Posted on 01/06/2025 7:28:42 AM PST by Red Badger

Call me old-fashioned, but I have always been under the impression that a minimum requirement for teachers would be basic literacy skills.

But that's just some outdated mumbo jumbo, I guess. Because in New Jersey, they need teachers and they don't care if they can even read or not.

A 6th-grade reading comprehension is NOT hard! Heck, there was a time when this was required to, you know, graduate to the 7th grade.

But after years of schools just passing kids along, grade by grade, learning apparently nothing, now we have teachers who have teaching degrees and licenses but who can't read as well as a 12-year-old!!

From Campus Safety Magazine:

New Jersey Democratic Governor Phil Murphy passed Act 1669 as part of the state's 2025 budget in June to address a teacher shortage, Read Lion reports. The law went into effect on Jan. 1, 2025. Individuals seeking an instructional certificate will no longer need to pass the Praxis Core Test, a basic skills test for reading, writing, and math that is administered by the state's Commissioner of Education.

'We need more teachers,' Democratic Sen. Jim Beach, who sponsored the bill, said in May 2024 when the chamber cleared the bill in a 34-2 vote. 'This is the best way to get them.'

Translation: "We just need bodies in the building." The people who voted in favor of this law will, in the same breath, tell you that homeschooling is not a quality education.

Just a few months prior, Murphy also signed a similar bill into law that established an alternative pathway for teachers to sidestep the testing requirement. According to Read Lion, the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA), a teachers union, was a driving force behind the bill and called the testing requirement 'an unnecessary barrier to entering the profession.' NJEA is associated with the National Education Association (NEA).

Teachers' unions, what would education be without them? (Good. Education would be good without them.)

It's really quite insane.

TOPICS: Education; Government; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: arth; newjersey; nj

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1 posted on 01/06/2025 7:28:42 AM PST by Red Badger

To: metmom

2 posted on 01/06/2025 7:28:57 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)

To: Red Badger

I suspect these sorts of teachers will not be working in the towns where there are no houses under $1.5 million.

3 posted on 01/06/2025 7:32:26 AM PST by proxy_user

To: Red Badger

Apparently, neither are the politicians that support the new law . . .

4 posted on 01/06/2025 7:36:00 AM PST by MCSETots ( )

To: Red Badger

Oh this is gonna work out spectacularly. SMH

Next up......in new joisey your surgeon need not have a medical degree.

5 posted on 01/06/2025 7:36:22 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)

To: Red Badger

Yet another reason to homeschool.

6 posted on 01/06/2025 7:36:43 AM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)

To: Red Badger

'We need more teachers,' Democratic Sen. Jim Beach, who sponsored the bill, said in May 2024 when the chamber cleared the bill in a 34-2 vote. 'This is the best way to get them.'

Surprised they're not looking at using H-1b visas to import foreign teachers - who can probably read English better than what they're hiring if they no longer need to pass an elementary-level reading, writing and math test.

7 posted on 01/06/2025 7:37:43 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)

To: Red Badger

Isn’t the idea behind a “teacher” someone who passes along a skill they possess?

8 posted on 01/06/2025 7:40:11 AM PST by Flag_This (They're lying.)

To: Red Badger

This is about keeping people from improving their lot, so the liberal elites aren’t threatened in their social position. Keeping people dumb keeps them from getting rich.

9 posted on 01/06/2025 7:40:12 AM PST by Jonty30 (Genghis Khan did not have the most descendants. His father had more. )

To: Tell It Right

This kind of jackassery is why no less than 30 public schools in my county are slated for closure.....parents demanding better learning by home schooling or transferring to private schools.

I went to public school in the 70s and back then my school system actually prepared you to at the very least go to junior college.

10 posted on 01/06/2025 7:40:56 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)

To: Red Badger

Forget it, Jake, it's Jursey...

I mean, Jersie...

I mean, Jerzy.

Never mind, where's my teaching certificate?

11 posted on 01/06/2025 7:41:58 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)

To: Red Badger

Kids are just the grist for Deep State’s diploma mills.

12 posted on 01/06/2025 7:42:04 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)

To: Red Badger; 6amgelsmama; 100American; AAABEST; aberaussie; AbolishCSEU; AccountantMom; ...

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I guess you don't need to be literate to teach sexism, racism, and DEI wokeness.

Anyone who wants kids who are literate needs to homeschool them.

13 posted on 01/06/2025 7:42:18 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)

To: Red Badger

Next, they’ll hire illegal immigrants as teachers.....

14 posted on 01/06/2025 7:45:38 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)

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