Gov. Ron DeSantis announced a plan to get veterans into classrooms last month.
“Florida is the most veteran- and military-friendly state in the nation,” said Governor Ron DeSantis. “We also know that our veterans have talents and skills that they can offer our students. This new opportunity expands Florida’s existing programs that help our veterans take their talents to our schools, and it will help Florida remain a national leader in education.”
Per SB 896 (2022), which unanimously passed the Florida House and Senate, veterans who successfully obtain their 5-year temporary teaching certificate will be assigned a mentor teacher for a minimum of two years to support their classroom teaching endeavors. They must also earn their bachelor’s degree during the 5-year period to be eligible for a full professional certificate.
Miguel Cardona, the disastrous hack picked as Secretary of Education by the Biden administration, called it a “slap in the face to the profession.”
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on Wednesday said lowering standards and changing pathways to qualify educators is disrespectful to the profession.
“Look, I’m all for veterans becoming teachers… but let’s remember, when the nation’s report card is showing that our students have dropped drastically, to provide educators who are not qualified or trained in the pedagogy of teaching is a slap in the face to the profession,” Cardona told reporters at “The Monitor Breakfast,” hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.
Maybe the profession needs a slap in the face? Or a reality check.
As Cardona knows quite well, students “dropped drastically” because teachers’ unions insisted on keeping schools closed. A big part of Gov. DeSantis’ legacy is keeping Florida open. The solution here isn’t having the same broken hacks who go on strike at the drop of a dime and keep trying to close schools. It’s fresh blood. Teaching at its core is not an esoteric rite. It’s been artificially made that way by people with MAs and PhDs who invent a lot of useless jargon that only breaks education even further.
If 17-year-old girls could teach in one-room schoolhouses in the west with better results than MAs in today’s classrooms, it’s not about the degree clout.
And Gov. DeSantis’ plan has veterans working toward their degrees while teaching.
The secretary advocated for better working conditions and more competitive salaries to attract and retain teachers in the profession — and suggested different uses of American Rescue Plan funding to compel new teachers to the field.
Sure. Let’s throw more money at the unions who fund Cardona’s boss and his political allies. For the children.
A slap in the face to the ” pedagogy of teaching”. I almost spit up my lunch when I read that
There’s nothing more ridiculous than an ignoramus who tries to seem educated.
Exactly!
The DoE hack prefers a closed shop of leftist, woke fake “intellectuals.” Anyone with common sense is denied entry.
Education is not a profession. It’s a scam.
So Veterans are not capable of teaching, eh?
Nah. Just not teaching the prescribed curricula. Not with the plan.
Born in 1875, my grandmother, first female graduate of Baylor, was one of those teachers in a one-room schoolhouse in Texas.
She taught me and my brother to read at the age of four, had beautiful handwriting, and studied history and genealogy all her long life. The word “education” really meant what it said in her day, “leading out of ignorance.”
Most of today’s “educators” seem bent on leading kids out of any kind of sanity or common sense.
I was an English teacher back in the day. It was the most rewarding job I ever had.
Of course. teachers make over a hundred grand a year now so the profession is rewarding in more ways than one. I heard yesterday that teachers in my old home town of Seattle make more than a hundred and thirty thousand in salary. And they get paid for twelve months even though work less than nine.
I bet your grandmother never had it so sweet, although she sounds like she deserved it.
I was a good teacher. My students learned. I didn’t screw around.I did have trouble keeping out of their pants, though. The adults, not the teens!
Hey, I can reply to my own comments and that’s cool but I can’r edit them and I can’t up-vote other people’s comments.
I enjoy up-voting people. I’m actually a nice guy although you’d never know it to read my comments.
You FPM guys need to fix that. Upvotes are a cool feature.
biden is an idiot the fbi is a toxic pack of clowns and the democrats suck….. its time to change these problems
Hey, I can reply to my own comments and that’s cool but I can’r edit them and I can’t up-vote other people’s comments.
I enjoy up-voting people. I’m actually a nice guy although you’d never know it to read my comments.
You FPM guys need to fix that. Upvotes are a cool feature.
Up-vote!
There have been radio ads in Pennsylvania promoting some sort of “shortcut” to a teaching career. I don’t know exactly how it works but it does fast track one into the classroom. I guess it’s only a problem if Desantis does it.
Best teacher I or anyone in the class or school ever had was a ww2 jr. infantry officer who landed on d-day and went all the way to Berlin . Lectured like a college prof. Which he later became. At class reunions over 50 yrs we all agreed he was the best teacher any of us ever had no matter how many yrs. of post secondary education we had! His bs& ms from were in history not education. The best teachers are leaders and that what we learn in military service hopefully.
Same pattern. They would always do what they accuse you of, but spit in your face to make you feel degraded and weak this is the recent one.
If you didn’t understand, they’re saying the child mutilator that can’t locate America on a map but can say “the whole thing should be communist”, a slap in the face to the profession of education and the current stock, is peaches and cream and trying to change that with people that obviously make good educators is bad. While slapping you in the face on repeat, they are saying that stopping them is a slap in the face.
Can they all be not alived already? I’ll piss the explanation of why they deserved it before into patterns on their tombstones if someone needs justifications.
Because I have no faith that’s coming, im long adiosed from America, frankly I don’t see how you can wake up in the morning and feel there is enough room for that and you.
The real “slap-in-the-face” is when the teachers’ unions pit themselves against parents and their values by trying to recruit their children into leftist political activism and the LGBTQ+ insanity.