DeSantis waives teacher requirements for veterans amid shortage | USA TODAY

Florida will allow veterans to become instructors as the state faces teacher shortages despite concerns it will undermine qualifications.

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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.

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.

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    1. Exactly, but remember to thank a republican. Family or friend, the Republicans in your life helped make all this possible 🗽 how far will they go before you cut them off?

    2. @Junksaint I thank DeSantis for keeping Florida free every single day. Cant wait to help elect him a 2nd time.

    1. Probably because over the last 70 years, the quality of education has deteriorated so much. (Since Unions got involved)

  1. Doughboys to flyboys? He wants WWI veterans to teach. 🤣 It’s insulting to all teachers to say that a person who served in the military with only 2 years of college can and will replace you. Where is the logic in that?

    1. Teachers are worth nothing in this society – even though they ARE but they aren’t. Contradictory, I know.

    2. 4 years of military service teaches a heck of a lot more than 4 years of college. Having worked pretty extensively with teachers I can safely say at least 1/3 of them SHOULD be replaced by someone. Though, this is meant to augment and not replace so don’t go get your panties in a bunch because you’re afraid of being replaced. Assuming you’re a teacher anyway.

    3. Officers have college degrees and can certainly teach a few subjects. DeSantis has 3 different law degrees and is a Veteran. He is certainly overqualified himself.

  2. This guys a year older than me and looks like he could be my dad.

    That’s what that ideology does to you.

  3. So being qualified is now an option. What about “If you were injured during service, come to Florida and be a surgeon for five years even if you only did one year of medical schooling. In the meantime use these 5 years to get your degree. “

    1. ☝️📲 ˡᵉᵃʳⁿ ᵗᵒ ⁱⁿᵛᵉˢᵗ ᵖʳᵒᵖᵉʳˡʸ ʷⁱᵗʰ ᵗʰᵉ ᵘˢᵃ ᵗᵒᵈᵃʸ. ᵗᵉˣᵗ ᵘˢ ⁿᵒʷ

    1. Nobody is disrespecting anyone. But would you be ok if your doctor was stamped certified to practice medicine…??

  4. Next this dud will announce that he will be replacing “woke” doctors, the ones with those fancy degrees, with that homeless guy begging on the street corner, thereby solving the homeless problem.

    1. Lol you just made the dumbest comparison. So you’re just going to casually compare using educated Veterans to augment the public school system to replacing doctors with homeless. Guess you’re also just going to pretend that there isn’t already quite a few teachers that are Veterans.

    2. @Kenneth Brugonone Dude, DeSantis is allowing ANY veteran, not matter what their background, to be a teacher. Sure there are teachers that are veterans, but there are many more veterans who know NOTHING about teaching. So yeah, dumb done the kids in Florida.

  5. Is Massachusetts Teachers minimum require bachelor degrees in “education”, for early ed, and master degrees for specialty subjects, some even doctorates.
    – Not sure if to laugh or cry at Florida..

    1. I’ve met a lot of stupid people with degrees, a lot of smart people without them, and vice versa. A good chunk of teachers walk in the door with teaching as their first job with a piece of paper that says congrats they made it through college. They have no real life experience to bring to the table. Mentally still children themselves. Also, what do you think this is geared toward? My bet is to get some more individuals with strong leadership into the populous cities to help curb the low literacy rates. Teaching problem kids isn’t about how many degrees you have, it’s about being a disciplined example. What better place to look than to our counties warriors? FL, TX, NY, and CA all need help with their flooded population centers.

    2. @Kenneth Brugonone You’ve clearly never taught, or went to school to an education school. You better have some sort of idea what makes a, “problem kid” tick and how to deal with them so that the kid ends up respecting you, the parents are happy with how you handled it, the other kids in the classroom aren’t neglected, all while teaching them a particular subject. These skills are taught in an education school. Taking a subject area test and being in the military does NOT make you a teacher.

  6. Yes, let’s put some vets with PTSD in classrooms. You got a “B” on your math test Jimmy, give me 50. DeSantis, are you on shrooms? The policies you have been lighting Florida up with lead me to believe you are living in some alternative reality. Good Luck Florida, glad he is running your state and not mine.

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