Praxis exam no longer requirement for teachers in Louisiana

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Back in March, the Louisiana Department of Education reported nearly 3,000 staffing vacancies. Young said this law will hopefully bring in new teachers.

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So LA is at the bottom in education, yet we are lowering teachers’ standards?

They are almost looking for warm bodies at this point, and that’s not an exaggeration.

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No wonder our states education department is so dam bad. Letting people with this average of a ACT score walk into teaching without qualifications is absurd

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There are 7th graders with an ACT score higher than 22. We're letting these people teach our kids

I like it when we lower standards so people can get a job makes complete sense.

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Anyone want to take bets on who they are dumbing it down for?

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BIPOC but not Asians, Middle Easterners, bisexual, gay, lesbian, queer, trans, or Hispanic

Who does that leave?

Hmmmm

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or there were two exceptions, which are if you made a 22 on the ACT

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CSB:
I wanted to change the world after graduating from LSU ‘08.
Wanted to teach inner city.
Went to Woodlawn to take my Praxis (waiver for ACT score was not in place at the time).
Tests are supposed to start at 8. Old woman is monitoring the class. I think she says “open your books and begin”, but apparently she said “sign in”. At 8:20, I look up and it’s me and one dude who are jotting stuff down. She gets on her walkie talkie, and two cops come in to escort me and this dude out.
I’m like, “wtf”? They say we’re just doing what we’re told, and bring us to the principal’s office. She starts scolding us, and telling us we’ll have to retake the test in 3 months. I tell her she’s nuts, I wasn’t cheating, just couldn’t hear the old hag. She says that’s not what she was told. I tell her to frick off. I’m then forcefully escorted off campus.

I then call the Praxis people, they tell me to go up there for noon. I go up there, and am met with a police presence. Praxis reps and I are on the phone, and they’re on the phone with principal. I was told if I apologize to principal, she’ll let me sit for second part, in which I would take both parts of praxis. After everyone else enters, it’s her, I, and the police. I apologize to her. She said, “I’ve heard what you’ve said. I don’t accept. Get off my campus”.

Still ended up teaching one whole semester of HS, but in OK, before I ended my career in education.

I had a high enough ACT score to skip the Praxis 1, but I took both social studies praxis tests, both English praxis tests, and the praxis PLT. Passed them all easily on the first try. They’re not that hard and anybody teaching your kids should be able to pass them. Louisiana is trying to put unqualified teachers in those roles instead of paying the good teachers out there. I left education a few years ago because I like to be able to buy groceries.

If you can’t score 22 on the ACT, you shouldn’t be allowed in college, Nevermind teaching