Behold, a daring breakthrough in educational standards:
The New York State Board of Regents will consider tomorrow whether to go with a task force’s recommendation to scrap a teacher literacy exam known as the Academic Literacy Skills Test. “Part of the reason,” NBC New York reports, is because “an outsized percentage of black and Hispanic candidates were failing it.” It is expected the Board will abandon the assessment.
“black and Hispanic candidates were failing it.”
Activists are constantly screaming that whites are going to be a minority so I guess we can assume literate people will be a minority also. And then the pol pot pogroms will begin..
Illiterate teachers? What could possibly go wrong?
khanacademy.org
“The level of Japanese society far surpasses that of the United States. There are many blacks, Puerto Ricans and Mexicans in the United States whose average level is extremely low.”
Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone
September 27, 1986
Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.
Iowa Congressman Steve King
March 12, 2017
Identity politics trumps the pretense of public education.
and people wonder why schools are churning out idiots. just what is an illiterate teacher going to teach^
“We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.”
Trying to talk one’s adult kids into having at least 3 babies seems to be a hopeless effort. I guess my great grandkids, should I have any, will be jihadists.
It’s no wonder why “Make America Great again” goes right over their heads.
I took a Faculty of Education class in Regina in the early 1980’s. Five or six members of the class were “special” because of their ethnic background. The professor complained in private that she was being pressured to pass these students even though they were illiterate. She was not tenured and was hoping to move on to greater things in her career, so she did not have much of a choice. This nonsense has been going on for a long time.
I forgot to mention, the class was a requirement for English teachers and for a Teaching Certificate in Saskatchewan.
I put up with similar things while I was teaching at a post-secondary institution. Corners were cut to pass certain students for any number of reasons: political correctness, department image, and so forth.
One way the institution got around it was to adopt the student-as-customer doctrine, thereby avoiding any obligation or responsibility to have any standards, let alone maintain them. My main job then changed from the conveying of knowledge and the teaching of skills to “meeting or exceeding the needs and expectations” of my customers.
In other words, if some lazy or untalented kid expected to get a high passing grade for doing nothing or turning in rubbish, I was required to comply. There was rarely a day or week in which I wasn’t in trouble because of it.
A recent post by Leanra Vargas at Pitzer College raised the question of why she would attend Pitzer
How & why the Pitzer College graduates illiterate flat-liners will be found in the Funding by Government grants. and the benefits of been a kind of minority..any minority will do…True or fake
“The average financial aid package at Pitzer is $40,250. Since 2004, the College has significantly reduced the average amount of indebtedness of its students to $19,422, well below the national average of more than $35,000”
I suspect we are paying them for attending the zero college.
My elementary school teacher wife received her teaching credential back in the 1970’s after a 4-year college degree in child development, and a post-graduate year in preparation for her teaching credential which included student-teaching in (essentially) a Mexican school in San Diego. She tried to get a teaching job after graduation and was unable to find employment … so she went to work for “corporate America”. She stopped working after our 3 children were born … and then decided to try teaching again after our kids were well-into their school years.
Long way to get to my main point …
My wife had to renew her teaching credential which had expired after all the intervening years. She had to take a comprehensive test to ensure she was still competent. None of the test was a worry to her EXCEPT … a new portion of the test which goes by the acronym CLAD. All Ca teachers require a CLAD certification … which demonstrates their ability to teach non-English speaking children.
http://www.ctc.ca.gov/help/english-learners/CLAD.html
In the intervening years of her hiatus from teaching … seems the state had become overrun by foreign children. So now she needed to learn how to use pictures and hand signals to communicate with her Mongolian 1st graders (she’s had several). So my wife had to take a battery of classes and the state exam to certify her CLAD. All so she could get a “lucrative” paycheck of $ 42k (it’s not much here in the SF Bay Area). So … 1) I am not the least bit surprised by the lowering of standards to attract non-English speaking teachers (although the pay is only marginally better than the welfare checks they are already receiving). 2) It is apparent that native-born Americans need not apply … as English-speaking Americans are further marginalized. 3) The continued lowering of standards is the FAULT of the Unionista teaching Cabal … so it isn’t surprising that the result of their lowered expectations for students has expanded to lowered expectations for teachers … I believe this is called a downward spiral.
Some what related, Toronto is very concerned that very few blacks are applying for medical school. They plan to do something about it. You know what that will mean.
For a decade and a half we fought to maintain a teacher education program that a) required competence in real subjects for admission; b) documented experience working with young people; c) academic and professional letters of reference that would support (a) and (b), d) a written response to a case study (based on actual incidents) that represented a real dilemma for teachers; and e) an interview to explore questions raised by the previous documents. Part of the thinking here was that serious students wouldn’t put up with poor courses from our professors (generally borne out). There wasn’t much we could do to keep politics out of things like “sociology of education” and the like, but the really awful instructors preferred the safe space of graduate studies and we filled the teaching methods courses with either full-time or part-time instructors who had experience in teaching in schools. Our graduates were well regarded in both public and private schools and were generally quite successful at job fairs, etc.
It didn’t take long at all for a new Dean to put “social justice” ahead of anything else. Within two years the curriculum had changed, the students were put on a starvation diet of race, class, and gender. The interviews were dropped, and anyone who managed to limp his or her way to graduation was considered for admission (and usually admitted), and in the effort to increase “diversity”, even minimal standards were abandoned.
My general advice to parents is to home-school if you can, try private school if you can afford it, and if you have no option but public school, don’t forget that you are the primary educators and be prepared to counter the nonsense they’ll get in school.