Posted on 03/15/2017 2:17:22 AM PDT by grundle
The New York Times recently reported:
The Board of Regents on Monday eliminated a requirement that aspiring teachers in New York State pass a literacy test to become certified after the test proved controversial because black and Hispanic candidates passed it at significantly lower rates than white candidates.
And there you have it.
The radical left thinks that racial diversity is more important than competence.
I wonder if they will be extending this kind of insanity to other professions, such as to medical doctors who perform surgery to save people’s lives, or to engineers who design bridges that are safe and which are able support the weight of all the cars, trucks, and buses that drive across them, or to auto mechanics who fix the brakes on people’s cars so they don’t crash and die.
The New York Times once reported:
The rate of AIDS among black women is 27 times the rate among white women.
Based on the same logic, the test which detects HIV antibodies in the bloodstream is also racist, and therefore, should also be eliminated.
Bridge builders?
It's not fair to exempt teachers and not engineers.
Its all for the children.
When these stupid people recieve proof their stupid ideas are STUPID they ignore it and double down on STUPID. The problem is that they aren’t harmlessly off ln a corner being stupid. They are taking us with them.
I’d like to see the literacy test used in the past to understand how low their standards were then and will be in the future.
This is why the doctor and the janitor got paid the same in the USSR.
So did I, and I posted my findings in one of the other many threads where this was misrepresented as “they can’t read”.
Here’s what it is:
http://www.nystce.nesinc.com/TestView.aspx?f=HTML_FRAG/NY202_PrepMaterials.html
The “test framework” PDF file gives an overview and sample problems and answers are provided.
Draw your own conclusions.
For many students, the most difficult part of the MCAT (the standardized test required for medical school admissions) used to be the section on organic chemistry; in recent years, the exam has been changed to deemphasize organic chemistry and instead has introduced a section on soft “sciences” like sociology.
Actually, that’s more of a test than I thought it would be and the answers to all those paragraphs about
Gertrude Stein could be debated. Rather than abandoning their literacy test, maybe they should craft a more straightforward exam.
In Response to Obamacare, Medical Schools to Lower Their Standards
Everyday there's a new reason to be thankful Trump's our President... this horror doesn't have to happen... Thanks for the link.
The rate of AIDS among black women is 27 times the rate among white women.
Based on the same logic, the test which detects HIV antibodies in the bloodstream is also racist, and therefore, should also be eliminated.
LOL - you've captured liberal 'logic'...
Amen to that!
Trump will not be perfect, as some seem to expect, but he is going to be an exceptional agent of change back in the direction of Constitutional governance. He has already done tremendous good for us.
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