CTU Karen “The Hutt” Lewis says: ‘Rich White People’ To Blame For Stupid Ghetto Kids.’ Take that, Caucasoids!
Just 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.
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.
We 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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Meanwhile, the rest of the world is laughing at us. It’s asinine stuff like this that makes me thankful that I am not immortal.
Ye Gods and little fishes… I can’t even… sigh…
Stupid judge is making sure the unemployable become even more so.
Just when you think things related to NYC schools can’t possibly get any worse for students, something like this presents itself. On the other hand, this may be a good thing. TOO much knowledge may make it impossible for a teacher to be able to teach Common Core. This way the kids won’t be so confused. They’ll just take it for granted that all adults have nothing of value to offer.