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No ‘Real’ Requirements For Teacher Substitutes In Michigan Schools
Posted On 30 Dec 2021
Michigan schools will be allowed to use non-teachers as substitutes amid a worker shortage that has been exacerbated by the spread of the omicron COVID-19 variant.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced on Monday she signed legislation to address a teacher shortage in the state by allowing staff members such as secretaries and paraprofessionals to work as substitutes until the end of the school year.
Michigan typically requires substitute teachers without a teaching certificate to have an associate’s degree or 60 semester hours of college credit, with some exceptions for employees teaching career and technical education classes, according to FOX2.
However, this bill reportedly will allow for staff, such as cooks, bus drivers and office workers to fill in as substitute teachers if they have a high school diploma or equivalent.
“The pandemic has been challenging for our children, teachers, and parents, and our educators have gone above and beyond to ensure Michigan’s children have a bright future,” Whitmer said in the press release. “Allowing schools to employ school staff that students know as substitute teachers will help keep school doors open and students learning in the classroom the rest of the school year.”
The governor assured she is committed to working with the legislature to create ways to address staff shortages in the long term.
Though the bill was sponsored by Republican state Rep. Brad Paquette and signed by a Democratic governor, it has not gone over well with everyone.
Michigan Education Association has been critical of the bill. Spokesperson Thomas Morgan slammed the legislation saying educators need increased pay and to be treated “like the professionals they are.” Anything else, he said, would be “at best a stopgap solution to a massive problem.”
Recent school staff shortages and cancelations have caused anxiety among many parents.
An October report from EdWeek Research Center found that 45% of school administrators consider staffing “shortages severe” or “very severe.”
Original Article: https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/michigan-schools-non-teachers-substitutes
Whitmer’s an idiot and a Democrat… But I repeat myself…
she is complicit in the continued dumbing down of our once great country.
What an outstanding standard of excellence! Imagine a world where the only two requirements necessary to be an educator for our children is to be alive and have a vaccine passport for a “vaccine” that doesn’t protect anyone from getting or giving the virus. So ineffective in fact that government officials have decided to redefine the word vaccine. In our world of identity politics the goalposts have been moved redefined or entirely abandoned. We are now as tax paying citizens expected to accept the janitor bus driver and office secretary as acceptable replacements for the educators of our children. If this doesn’t sound ludicrous to you I’d suggest a psychiatric assessment. The entire concept of being so all in on a vaccine that doesn’t work that literally everything and anything be damned the only real goal becomes more than obvious. Firing teachers over an unconstitutional mandate and then tell the voters that the janitor has now taken over the responsibilities of educating your children is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard or seen. This isn’t madness this is straight up stupid. The American people have a decision to make and they had better make it now. If they don’t decide correctly they are ensuring a generation of uneducated woke lackluster individuals that thinks the world owes them everything. The choice is simple be either woke or awake. It’s clear that the future is not so bright for America if we allow these ineffectual nonsensical identity politics policies to continue as we can see there’s just no end to the idiocy.
God Bless America
i FIGURED THEY WOULD HAVE TO BE NON-WHITE,LIBERAL,DEMOCRAP AND COMMUNIST.