In Wisconsin, The Ability to Read May No Longer Be a Requirement for Teachers
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I guess there are two big questions.
Is FORT a good test to require teachers to take? The test seems rather difficult if it is a problem for college educated adults. What skills are lost by allowing professionals who can't pass the test?
How messed up is the current school funding situation? School-age children as a percentage of the population is dropping, so it isn't like we need more children as a percentage of the population. If school budgets kept up with inflation, we shouldn't need teachers to take a vow of poverty.
School budgets are paid out of city property taxes, which are mostly paid and voted on by old people who own homes with no mortgage and little chance of increasing their income. They also don't have young kids and are probably Republican.
They'd gouge their own eyes out before they'd vote to raise their own property taxes to pay for something that doesn't benefit them.
Ergo, schools are always underfunded.
Before voting for something that obviously benefits them. An educated populace benefits them, they just don't see it.