What kind of question is this? For a test designed for teachers in a particular state, I haven't encountered any questions about Oklahoma or the context of its own schools and laws. Surely the governor of Oklahoma also sign bills into law? Exclusively federal emphasis so far.
(my test bugged out and I had to restart it...) (also there is nothing that would prevent anyone from just tabbing out to look up the answers if they didn't know them...)
Why is this a question that potential Oklahoma teachers should concern themselves with an any kind of certification exam?
This is just a trivia question, entirely non material even to the functioning of American government.
"What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?" This is a test for Oklahoma teachers...
Interesting framing for this question... What was Abraham Lincoln's primary reason for waging the Civil War? Really implying that slavery and its expansion was not the most salient issue of the Civil War, even if, yes, abolition was not "the primary reason for waging the Civil War"
What cause is MLK Jr. best known for? "Advocating for diversity, equity, and inclusion" is not the right answer, apparently.
If you're an Oklahoma parent, does it matter to you if your kid's 2nd grade teacher can correctly identify what PragerU says is how the Cold War ended? I have to keep reminding myself this is a test for prospective teachers that's supposed to say something about Oklahoma values? But what?
I'm really just bored and irritated by how this test started off as a culture war barometer and turned into the history questions from Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? *This is a test for classroom teachers in Oklahoma*
Of course, once you finish the exam (and have my results send to no@no.com), you are prompted to donate to PragerU for a matched gift (don't do this):
You'd think that for the certification test for educators there'd be some questions about pedagogy...
Feels like they put in their ideological screening questions & then cribbed the rest from a US citizenship exam to try to hide it.
What strikes me about these is that they aren't ideological. What does he think teachers in blue states teach? The gov't questions are dumb but they dont teach the constitution different in NY
Exactly. It's just...very weird?
More performative dumbassery from the culture war crowd.
That would likely be an acceptable answer on the US citizenship test - “fought for civil rights” and “worked for equality for all Americans” are given as model answers.
It was literally equality before the law. That was his cause. DEI followed on from that basic, fundamental human right.
If inclusion is "the practice or policy of providing equal access to opportunities & resources for people who might otherwise be excluded or marginalized, such as those who have physical or intellectual disabilities & members of other minority groups," I'm not sure there is a difference. 😅
The whole point of the question is to divide MLK's advocacy from current civil rights language framed through "DEI" when there is not a material difference between the two. PragerU would've hated King in his own time even as they uplift his caricature in the present.
Check out “All Labor Has Dignity” sometime. Might still be available in public libraries?
This is such a shocking development to the eyes of a European ! Echoes of 'The Handmaid's Tale' ...
💯 this is gen ai made
That's my guess too, but I wonder why the hell it took them so long?
Probably to get the tenders out to vendors and then to check it vaguely to ensure it met the facism criteria. And so fifty people could click through and say “ok with me”. I’ve made training for business and it can take months for one cyber training to be approved.
THEY likely want 'segregation'...
Eh, despite his distaste for slavery and his signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, you could reasonably argue Lincoln primarily wanted to preserve the union.
Can you attach the goose meme "state's rights to do what"
To be fair, it was 'to preserve the Union'. Lincoln famously said that if he could have done that without freeing a single slave he would have.
Right, but again, the question is framed in a deliberately misleading way to downplay the role of slavery as a cause of, or the end of slavery as a result of, the Civil War. Why did the Union require preservation in the first place?
No argument from me. But when you're dealing with traps set by people with black and white 'textbook ideas' you can't be colourful and introduce nuance and overview and all that woke stuff. Just answer the specific question they asked, and let them find another way to block you from employment.
They let you try again?
Prayer took out a full page ad in today’s NY Times with 34 of its questions.
Again, they likely want A..
The correct answer isn't there.
That’s. Really. Fucked. Up. OK has always sucked this just is more suck.
To be fair, teachers in Oklahoma likely don't know the answers to these questions, nor would they be able to pass a basic U.S. Civics exam.
THEIR right answer would be C..
It’s actually a trap for teachers old enough to have seen 1776 the musical.
This is a woke question, I tell you! This question will naturally lead impressionable children to want to read the first draft and compare with the final draft, then these innocent children will be forced to confront how TJ believed the enslavement of humans violated their natural rights, and then
It's a weird one too, because these people will LARP as respecting the founding fathers, but the ones who wrote the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights were pretty anti religion in Gov. But Oklahoma is forcing the 10 commandments and Bibles in every classroom.
And PragerU spews religious propaganda, including rejection of other biological realities like evolution. There's just too many layers of irony and hypocrisy built in.
clearly all incorrect the first draft was written much earlier [end of shitpost]
And the rest of the actual questions are middle school level at best.
Many of these are just cribbed straight off the US citizenship civics test. This is question 49 - www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...
And WHY is there NO right answer??
Well, the point isn't to check what the teacher knows, but what the teacher is willing to say. They're probably perfectly happy for you you look it up, but you have to look it up on PragerU if you want to make sure that you get the intended answer.
Yeah that's because it's a loyalty test
You can always use a second device.
