If you have a High School diploma and a training class you can be hired as a Teacher now in Oklahoma.

[sumoj275]

Wif signed up to be a sub, 5-6 years ago.
HS Diploma, she was informed she could could only sub for 8th grade and below.

She subbed all but the first 4 days of school. All in the same 7th grade class.

During the summer, she was contacted about an "unofficial permanent" sub position. Her class had scored the highest grades in 10 years and their individual placements were higher than their yearly advances for their 7 years.

I suppose not being taught to teach, actually teaching, expecting work to be done and behaving, does have an effect on learning. Who would of thunk?

Did they change the law on how many days a person could Sun in the same class? It used to be a certain amount of days without a college degree?

 

[turkeyrun]

Did they change the law on how many days a person could Sun in the same class? It used to be a certain amount of days without a college degree?

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Small school in small town.
I'm guessing they do what they have to to get by.

 

[sumoj275]

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Small school in small town.
I'm guessing they do what they have to to get by.

Fair enough. I guess the amount of teachers retiring, teachers leaving the state, teachers leaving the profession of teaching all together, not to mention a lack of quality candidates coming from college into the workforce have left many districts in a bind. Your example of your wife’s class is great and unfortunate there aren’t more at her level that want to get into education. Way too many educators are straddled by BS standards that are mandated, too many administrators not doing their job in fear of parents or losing their school, too many teachers wanting to be friends and not educators, and the parent aspect that goes from no parent at home to the point where the parent at home should be in jail with their kid better off without a parent f***ing the kid all up.