New York Ditches “Literacy” Test for Teachers Because it’s…Wait for it…RACIST
Political correctness is running amuck in the state of New York.
So much so, the state is ditching the literacy test that every potential teacher took because some liberal idiot has deemed it “racist.”
This move comes as the US ranks among the lowest countries in education standards.
From Fox News
At a time when the United States has plummeted in the global rankings of education standards, one of the country’s largest states is poised to scrap a test designed to measure the reading and writing skills of people trying to become teachers.
Citing the fact that an outsized percentage of black and Hispanic candidates were failing the test, members of the New York state Board of Regents plans to adopt a task force’s recommendation to eliminate the literacy exam, known as the Academic Literacy Skills Test, given to prospective teachers.
The move to do away with the test has been met with mixed reviews. Supporters of the exam say that eliminating it could put weak teachers in the classroom, while critics argue the test is confusing, redundant and a poor predictor of who will succeed as a teacher.
The tests, however, came under intense scrutiny for their alleged racial bias, after just 46 percent of Hispanic test-takers and 41 percent of black test-takers passed it on the first try, compared with 64 percent of white candidates.
Plus, critics said, the test’s $131 price tag is too steep.
Despite a ruling by a federal judge in 2015 that the test was not discriminatory, faculty members at education schools say a test that screens out so many minorities is problematic.
“Having a white workforce really doesn’t match our student body anymore,” Soodak said.
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Well, Duh! You think White people may have studied a little harder than their Black and Hispanic counterparts? So let me get this straight. In NY State it is RAAACIST when White people do better on the tests? Lord, did anyone factor in the Chinese here? They probably studied the hardest of any group or their parents would kick their butts! Is that RAAACIST? No, what you have here is another form of Liberal control. Lower the standards and continue to dumb down the population! The better to control the people and stay in power. That is how they create masses of followers who are too stupid to see right from wrong and keep voting these jackals into power! So now we will have the dumb teaching the dumb to produce little Communist Liberals for future generations of Patriots to deal with! Thank God for the Electoral College!
I can’t even think what to say…. I’m dumbfounded!
The kids will get dumber, which the dems want so that they will be robots to vote for d’s to keep d’s in power.