[PapaBear3625]

I have no doubt that this is being repeated in many of the “majority minority” schools in America. We, as white teachers, were told by this woman that “you cannot be as effective as a black teacher as you don’t share the same culture as our students.” Even the black teachers present gasped at this and protested, and she exploded angrily at them for daring to do so, as usual.

In order to be able to dispense patronage to your friends, you must first create vacancies to fill.

This administrator didn't want competent teachers. She wanted teachers who owed their jobs to her, and would be loyal to her as a result. Plus, failing black schools are more likely to get more money in order the help them, which translates into more opportunity for graft.

I also suspect that it was the administrators above her who encouraged her behavior, figuring she was deniable and expendable if there was any blow-back.

[centurion316]

By far the two best posts on this thread.

In order to be able to dispense patronage to your friends, you must first create vacancies to fill.

These schools have nothing to do with education and very little to do with children. They are patronage factories and seedbeds for corruption. Not only do the administrators want political control of their employees, they want a compliant and silent work force so that shadow employees can receive paychecks without ever making an appearance at the school. They want to be able to shift resources from the classroom to political activities. They want to use miserable results to demand more resources.

Competent teachers who are not part of the ethnic organized crime operation are threats.

[struggle]

> I also suspect that it was the administrators above her who encouraged her behavior, figuring she was deniable and expendable if there was any blow-back.

And that was the other side of it. The superintendent’s brother was the dean of a local black university, and I’m assuming they were filled with graduates ready to replace 30 year veterans making 80K with fresh grads making 28K. The only problem was the process was going to slowly.