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It's interesting to read the details, because: > Teacher candidates must have a minimum of 60 college credits with a 2.5 GPA, and also must receive a passing s
by themodelplumber 4y ago
It's interesting to read the details, because:
> Teacher candidates must have a minimum of 60 college credits with a 2.5 GPA, and also must receive a passing score on the FLDOE subject area examination for bachelor’s level subjects.
And...
> Veterans must have a minimum of 48 months of military service completed with honorable/medical discharge. If hired by a school district, they have to have a teaching mentor.
So, this is not just dropping some rando off the street into a classroom. Plus, the article points out that some of the teachers don't seem as concerned with the program itself, so much as concerned with what they see as more root-cause, systemic issues.
Plus it's an application process, not just cutting a new path around every school district filter to make some kind of emergency veteran-surge happen.
And on top of that, there's not exactly a sign-up surge:
> The Alachua County public school district currently has more than 60 teaching vacancies. Since the law passed, no veterans or spouses have applied to the school district for a job, spokeswoman Jackie Johnson said.
Seems like it's only been a week or so (?) but still, if the program was really that great, one might expect at least somebody to have applied in that time...
- fortran77 4y ago> So, this is not just dropping some rando off the street into a classroom. Yes they are -- because the spouse of a veteran also qualifies. This is what I have a problem with.
- themodelplumber 4y ago> because the spouse of a veteran also qualifies Nope, they don't qualify to be dropped in, nobody does. That's what the article explained--you have to apply, meet requirements, be mentored, and so on.
- fortran77 4y agoBut any person off the street can’t try to qualify.