Posted on 04/28/2021 3:29:06 PM PDT by grundle
The New York Times wrote:
“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.”
What do you think?
I strongly agree with the New York State Board of Regents.
I somewhat agree with the New York State Board of Regents.
I have mixed feelings / I'm not sure/ I have no opinion.
I somewhat disagree with the New York State Board of Regents.
I strongly disagree with the New York State Board of Regents.
The end of cultural appropriation of the English Language?
well, it’s not like they have to be proficient in the subjects they teach, so why not...
Idiocracy
Well sine teachers are retrained in a new curriculum every year why just skip it. Testing for anything except CoVid is bad.
I thouight they already did that years ago! semi/s
How about a litteracy test
You know, to get the litter and the garbage out of our education system.
What do I think? I think it’s what any honest person would expect from this crowd.
Illiterate teachers teaching illiterate kids; what’s the difference?
Great idea, let’s have blind pilots too. And let the insane run the asylum too.
They did.
This is ANCIENT news, from 2017.
Reposted as CLICKBAIT for a BLOG.
The English language has been dying as long ago as when I graduated MSU in 1970. I had a friend who got a teaching degree. She routinely said, “has went”.
If they can spell “literacy”, then... Ok. If they can spell “litter at sea” then hire them right away!
The illiterate leading the illiterate.
It sounds like the perfect way to produce the next generation of illiterates who will become the next generation of illiterate teachers.
We live in bizarro world.
Blog pimp *PING*
Probably doesn’t make much of a difference in the light that they aren’t teaching but lounging around at home with full pay living the life.
The state of New York recently passed a law requiring prospective school teachers to take a literacy test to get their license, but repealed it the following year because 36 percent of whites, 54 percent of Hispanics and 59 percent of blacks failed on the first try.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/nyregion/ny-regents-teacher-exams-alst.html
80% of NY City HS grads can’t read at grade level
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/03/80_of_ny_city_hs_grads_cant_read_at_grade_level.html
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