Teachers union wants to scrap Basic Skills Test not just for students, but also for teachers!

It's getting way more common: you read a story and think, "That's too insane to even be plausible!"  But it turns out to be true.

Logically, would a competent employee want to end objective tests of his or her skills?  Yet the New Jersey affiliate of the NEA is demanding that the state scrap the basic skills test for certifying teachers, wailing that it's "an unnecessary barrier" hindering the alleviation of teacher shortages.

Imagine a group of doctors who objected to taking tests to become board-certified.  Most people would assume those docs were sub-par.  Or imagine airlines saying "We're having trouble finding enough pilots, so we'll just hire anyone who wants to be a pilot, without testing 'em to see if they're competent!"

Democrats praised the demand to drop testing, claiming tests were "unfair to minorities," while parent groups said teachers should be able to pass a basic skills test both before they're hired and every year after that.

Last year the same state branch of the NEA got state bureaucrats to scrap a different teacher certification test, again claiming it was discriminatory and made it harder to hire new teachers.  (Seeing a pattern here?)

They claimed it was "discriminatory" because minority applicants had to score five percent higher than whites to be offered a job.

Hahahahaha!  Just kidding: If any state or city tried that, Merrick Garland would have an FBI swat team raid their offices at 4 a.m.

Nah, the union claims the test is "discriminatory" because doggone it, it's just not fair to force minorities to pass a skills test.  And if the state scraps the test for minorities, gotta scrap it for everyone, cuz if they didn't the double-standard would be obvious even to dim-witted Democrat voters.

The state's incompetent, tyrannical governor is likely to give in to the teachers union's demands since he has to have their votes.  He's also going to make it easier for teachers to pass failing students, since that makes the state's graduation rate--and the teachers-- look far better.

This covid fascist warmly supports trannies, and says anyone who object to school personnel pushing children to "transition" is an "extremist."  He specifically called those critical of public schools teaching the joys of "transitioning" "extremists seeking to insert political ideology in schools."

"They want to dim the light of truth and instead shroud our schools in the darkness of fear and intimidation," said Murphy. "Know that I have your backs unconditionally and always."

Yes we all know that, Democrat tyrant.

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