This man was correct after all.
Posted on 08/28/2014 10:37:14 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
After the Vergara v. California decision in California’s state Supreme Court, which held that key job protections for teachers are unconstitutional, anti-union advocates everywhere began spawning copycat lawsuits. But while reformers may genuinely want to fix education for everyone, their efforts will only worsen diversity in the teaching corps. The truth is that an attack on bad teacher tenure laws (and ineffective teachers in general) is actually an attack on black professionals. If the Vergara clones succeed, black children will lose effective teachers and the black community will lose even more middle-class jobs.
Black workers are most likely to hold public sector union jobs. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, among the major ethnic groups, blacks (13.6 percent) represent the highest percentage of union members among the total number of workers (whites are 11 percent; Asians are 9.4 percent; and Hispanics are 9.4 percent), and the highest unionization rates among all professions were in the education services occupations (35.3 percent). In 26 of the 48 jurisdictions (states plus the District of Columbia) where at least some black and some white teachers are covered by collective bargaining agreements, blacks are more likely to be covered by agreements than whites. This is the case in California, where the Vergara decision originated. Blacks are more likely to teach in urban areas in many states, and so are more likely to be covered by collective bargaining. Therefore, black teachers have much at stake in the Vergara decision.
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So the writer’s argument is that black people are, in general, more incompetent than people from other races and ethnic backgrounds.
If he believed that black people are competent and hard working, than being judged on the quality of their work would not be an issue.
He’s a racist pig. Just saying.
Professionals...
At what pray tell? The subversion of our children?
Okay, then maybe they are professionals.
Fixed it.
Race, race, race all of the time. Everything has become a racist issue. It seems Nathan Bedford was correct after all.
So, the writer believes that an attack on BAD teachers is an attack on BLACK teachers? That sounds racist to me.
so.....purging bad teachers is RAAAACIST?
You needn't be a master of Euclidian logic to solve for "x" in this equation.
Wouldn't that only be true if black tenured teachers as a group were statistically worse than teachers of other races?
so he’s calling all black professionals bad at what they do....must be a liberal if he still has his job...
we must sacrifice out children’s futures for the sake of not dealing with bad teachers since this guy admits it will affect blacks more.
It seems the author is defining diversity as a percentage of minorities represented regardless of competence or lack of. Any thinking person would know this is not good for the children.
The Vergara decision was not a decision of the California Supreme Court. It was only decided by the Superior Court, a state trial court; it can be appealed to the Court of Appeal and from there to the California Supreme Court. If the author gets that basic a fact wrong in the first half of the first sentence of the article, I'm not reading any more.
We would long ago have stopped seeing the color of a person’s skin if the race baiters and race profiteers had stopped their ugly trade.
Race was a fading issue or a non-issue during the Bush administration. Obama and crew brought it back because it suited their political and profit agenda.
If the current administration really wanted race issues to go away, then they would stop talking about it. They just can’t keep their mouths shut.
This man was correct after all.
LOL! Excellent
This guy says two contradictory statements.
1) Losing tenure will reduce black teachers because they are ineffectual.
2) Black children will lose effective teachers.
If this nonsense is the best this author has, give up. The debate is already lost.
Yep, he was correct too.
Yes, but there’s “disparate impact” which “proves” that these “colorblind” rules tend to affect blacks more than others -
like, disciplinary standards for students.
They never want to admit, however, the “disparate behavior” that leads to “disparate impact”.
I DESPISE EDUCRATES!
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