Testing teachers for reading comprehension is RACIST

Jabba The Karen Lewis HuttCTU Karen “The Hutt” Lewis says: ‘Rich White People’ To Blame For Stupid Ghetto Kids.’ Take that, Caucasoids!

Stupid Melanin TeacherJust ask a federal judge in New York.

From the DailyCaller.com:

NY Teacher Exam Thrown Out For Being Discriminatory

by Blake Neff

A federal judge in New York has struck down a test used by New York City to vet potential teachers, finding the test of knowledge illegally discriminated against racial minorities due to their lower scores.

At first glance, the city’s second Liberal Arts and Science Test (LAST-2) seems fairly innocuous. Unlike the unfair literacy tests of Jim Crow, LAST-2 was given to every teaching candidate in New York, and it was simply a test to make sure that teachers had a basic high school-level understanding of both the liberal arts and the sciences.

One sample question from the test asked prospective educators to identify the mathematical principle of a linear relationship when given four examples; another asked them to read four passages from the Constitution and identify which illustrated checks and balances. Besides factual knowledge, the test also checks basic academic skills, such as reading comprehension and the ability to read basic charts and graphs.

 

And there you have it.  Testing hispanics and blacks for reading comprehension is now racist.  Being able to understand a chart or a graph is racist.

This is the point to which we, as a nation, have now devolved.

Leftists couldn’t be happier.

Leftist TeachersWe are in fact heading directly for the movie “Idiocracy.”

The next telling paragraph:

Nevertheless, this apparently neutral subject matter contained an insidious kernel of racism, because Hispanic and black applicants had a passage rate only 54 to 75 percent of the passage rate for whites.

Oh no, say not so!  Hispanics and blacks that cannot pass tests requiring logic and common sense?  We can’t have that!

Once their higher failure rate was established, the burden shifted to New York to prove that LAST-2 measured skills that were essential for teachers and therefore was justified in having a racially unequal outcome. While it might seem obvious that possessing basic subject knowledge is a key skill for a teacher, District Judge Kimba Wood said the state hadn’t met that burden.

Judge Kimba Wood, lets us not forget, was appointed.  She never had to take an — ahem — actual test.  She may not be much keen on “tests.”

And just when you thought things couldn’t be more stupid, well — things indeed get more stupid.  Literally.

LAST-2 hasn’t been used in New York since 2012, but the ruling will still have repercussions. Minorities who failed the exam (who number in the thousands) may be owed years of back pay totaling millions of dollars, and those who were relegated to substitute teaching jobs could be promoted to having their own classrooms. In addition, while Wood’s ruling only applies to New York City, the test was used statewide, and it could serve as a precedent for further lawsuits.

The ruling could also pave the way for another ruling finding New York’s current teacher test, the Academic Literacy Skills Test (ALST), to be discriminatory as well. That test is even harder than LAST-2, with a strong focus on literacy skills such as writing and reading comprehension, and like LAST-2 it has a very large gap in scores between whites and minorities. A lawsuit, once again being heard by Wood, is already pending, with the plaintiffs arguing that there is no clear evidence strong literacy skills are essential for a teacher.

So: isn’t that just perfect?  Those morons insufficiently intelligent to pass these tests could sue the state of New York in order to get their jobs and back wages.  How perfect!  How classically Leftist!

Because, after all, it is infinitely more important to have a ignorant person of melanin in the classroom than someone who is actually educated and possesses knowledge, is it not?

Because, after all, “there is no clear evidence strong literacy skills are essential for a teacher.”

BZ

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OJ’s acquittal and subsequent riots:

OJ AcquittalCan you recall the massive Caucasoid riots?

Uh.  Nope.

BZ

 

Blacks can’t be racist, Part XLVII:

From the ChicagoTribune.com:

Mayor: New high school won’t be named after President Obama

by John Byrne, Juan Perez Jr and Dana Ferguson

Mayor Rahm Emanuel backed off Thursday from naming a new elite high school after President Barack Obama amid ongoing criticism from African-Americans who felt the honor inappropriate for a school slated for a wealthy, predominantly white part of the Near North Side.

Instead of naming the new school after his former boss, the mayor indicated he would consider other names for the selective enrollment high school set to be built near the site of the former Cabrini-Green public housing project just northwest of downtown.

Excuse me for a moment.  I generally don’t know crap about Chicago, but I happen to know about the Cabrini-Green public housing projects in that city.

And the former Cabrini-Green projects were the toilet of Chicago.  From Wikipedia:

At its peak, Cabrini–Green was home to 15,000 people,[2] living in mid- and high-rise apartment buildings totaling 3607 units. Over the years, gang violence and neglect created terrible living conditions for the residents, and the name “Cabrini–Green” became synonymous with the problems associated with public housing in the United States. The last of the buildings in Cabrini–Green was demolished in March 2011.[3]

Cabrini_greenTo the point that Chicago had to physically blow up the buildings and take them down.

To continue:

Powerful far South Side Ald. Carrie Austin, who represents part of the Roseland neighborhood where Obama worked as a community organizer before getting into politics, said she told Emanuel shortly after the announcement that the name was a problem given where it would be built.

“If they’re going to name a school after President Obama they should put it somewhere else,” Austin said Thursday. “Either in Roseland, where he got his start, or in the Hyde Park area, where he lived and has a home. To put it (on the near North Side), that just doesn’t look right.”

It wouldn’t “look right.”

Translated: the new area was too “gentrified”with Caucasoids and wasn’t sufficiently “ghetto” in order to honor the name and “strife” of Barack Hussein Obaka.

Mayor Emanuel caved.

“He backed off on the name,” Austin said. “To his credit, he heard what we were saying and he listened and took it to heart.”

But here’s the black political Crux of the Biscuit in Chicago:

The name change comes as Emanuel tries to win back faltering support from African-American voters heading into the February 2015 municipal elections. Mayoral opponent Ald. Robert Fioretti launched his campaign against Emanuel last week by charging that the mayor’s policies have benefited wealthy Chicagoans while leaving working class residents behind.

Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis, who is weighing a mayoral run, has been critical of Emanuel’s school policies as well, also saying they favor the wealthy at the expense of poorer residents.

Karen Lewis.  This Karen Lewis?  The “harpooned whale” Karen Lewis (at least she’s eating well courtesy of her dues-paying blue collar teachers)?  I submit that the phrase “weighing a mayoral run” is quite the poor choice of words.

Karen-Lewis-CTU-PresidentChicago teachers strike: want a 16% wage increase

CTU President Karen Lewis laughs about lying to parents, turning students into ‘hostages’

Yes.  That would be one and the same.

Yes.  Demanding that a school not be named after the first black president because the area isn’t “sufficiently black.”

Perfect.

BZ

 

CTU President Karen Lewis laughs about lying to parents, turning students into ‘hostages’

Karen Lewis Chicago CommandantFrom EAGNews.org:

By Kyle Olson
EAGnews.org

NEW YORK – Why is our government education system so dysfunctional? Perhaps because parents often don’t get the truth and administrators and teachers are constantly fighting each other.

That much can be discerned from the words of Karen Lewis, president of the radical Chicago Teachers Union.

Lewis appeared before the New York Collective of Radical Educators (an appropriate audience, to be sure) March 16 to give the keynote address at the group’s annual conference.

Lewis reminisced about her teaching days, when she would lie to parents when it came time to discuss their child’s performance. She then said – because of her lies – the student became her “hostage” who would do what she wanted.

The YouTube video here and below:

That said, need I make any further comments?  Because, after all, I reference my links to Karen Lewis here.

Quite.  I suspected not.

BZ