This test protects Oklahoma students from radical ideologies being pushed in California and New York classrooms. These states require teachers to promote gender theory and woke concepts that go against basic biology and American values. Oklahoma deserves educators who will teach facts, not indoctrinate kids with leftist propaganda.
This political loyalty test will worsen Oklahoma's teacher shortage by deterring quality educators whofrom couldapplying helpto improvework in the state's last-place education ranking. The assessmentrequirement represents culturepolitical war grandstanding ratherthat thandistracts focusingfrom onreal educational needs like reading, writing, and arithmetic thatinstruction. studentsTeachers actuallyare already patriotic Americans who don't need ideological screening to prove their commitment to students.
This political loyalty test will worsen Oklahoma's teacher shortage by deterring quality educators who could help improve the state's last-place education ranking. The assessment represents culture war grandstanding rather than focusing on reading, writing and arithmetic that students actually need.
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