Remember, "It's for the Children". And you wonder why charter/private/religious schools are gaining popularity? - Granite Grok

Remember, “It’s for the Children”. And you wonder why charter/private/religious schools are gaining popularity?

SchoolhouseOnce again, the stories just apply themselves to my college anecdote of trying to teach an education major one of the simplest equations in math: Y = MX +B (describing how a line is to be drawn).  And New York is going to codify that incompetence because DIVERSITY! Reformatted, emphasis mine

…One of these is known as the Academic Skills Literacy Test (ASLT). It’s basically a reading comprehension test administered to those who would eventually be giving similar tests to students…Sounds almost like a no-brainer, doesn’t it? You might think so, but this month it looks like the Empire State will be scrapping the examination because not enough people were passing it and the failure rates were deemed to be too heavily skewed along racial lines. (Associated Press)

New York education officials are poised to scrap a test designed to measure the reading and writing skills of people trying to become teachers, in part because an outsized percentage of black and Hispanic candidates were failing it.  The state Board of Regents on Monday is expected Monday to adopt a task force’s recommendation of eliminating the literacy exam, known as the Academic Literacy Skills Test. Backers of the test say eliminating it could put weak teachers in classrooms. Critics of the examination said it is redundant and a poor predictor of who will succeed as a teacher.

This is not something which just cropped up. A group representing many of these aspiring teachers brought lawsuits in 2015 claiming that both the ASLT and a second exam focusing on liberal arts and sciences were somehow racist in nature. The group was seeking more than $300 million in damages but a federal court eventually dismissed the case. Despite the fact that the courts gave the testing program a thumbs up, it seems that the testing regimen will be scrapped anyway.

So, for the sake of DIVERSITY, let’s put teachers into the classroom that can’t read or do math themselves – It’s for our Children! with lower and lower standards.  This is what happens with public sector unions – protectionism.

And they wonder why THEY keep wondering why we don’t “value” them as professionals?  Hey,

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