I took the PragerU teacher qualification test. I passed! I can just flash this certificate when the fascists take over the university.
I gotta tell you, though: it’s not much of a test. It’s a test on rails. If you get a question “wrong” (“wrong” as defined by PragerU often means “correct” by reasonable, rational people) it tells you, and gives you the opportunity to change your answer. You can just randomly guess, and it will guide you to the answer Dennis Prager wants. So I actually answered the questions honestly, which was often scored as incorrect, but there is no record of that. Basically all you have to do is stumble your way through the test in total ignorance and you’ll always get a 100% perfect score at the end.
Also, a lot of the questions are trivial and stupid.
Nice of PragerU to announce to the world that their teaching qualifications have as much veracity as Kent Hovind’s doctorate.
“Dr. Myers, University of Austin on line 2, University of Phoenix on line 3…”
I passed too, but faster than you did because unlike you I was careful to give the “right” answers the first time. Sadly, I won’t be receiving a certificate because I put down a fake name and other information. Do you really want to be on their mailing list?
Does this qualify you to teach in Oklahoma public schools? Or does it overqualify you?
Can you compost that?
Wait. Did you need to print it out yourself?
I was hoping it was like the driving test where you had to study a booklet beforehand to pass. At least that would have left a paper trail of PragerU’s absurdity. Not being allowed to move on until you give the right answer reminds me of the last online corporate HR ethics course I took.
So do PragerU credentials transfer to the jesus state’s Boards of Indoctrination? If so, the opportunities to poison young minds simply explodes!
So anyone can get that “qualification” meaning it is worth, well, fuck all really..
It’s like E L Wisty. He couldn’t pass the exams to become a judge so he took a job where you only had to get your name right and he got 60% on that.
Correction: he got 75%
How much does this certificate cost? Don’t want to click on PragerU to find out for myself…
@ ^ submoron : EL Wisty? Who? (Wikichecks) :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._L._Wisty
Ah. never heard of that character till now. Thanks.
@12. chrislawson : Dunno what its costs but I know what its worth..
It’s free! They don’t actually send you anything material, just a link to a web page with a picture of the certificate.
I’m already on a host of evil websites. If I don’t sign up for them, somebody else will do it for me.
The test is really a lesson in authoritarianism. You are taught that thinking is wrong, are given instructions by the authority, and when you obey you are rewarded.