I teach and just recently changed school districts. At my previous school, my (black) principal called me into her office one day and demanded to know why the white and hispanic kids in my classes were out performing the black kids by such a large margin year after year. This principal had been at our school for 3 years at this time. I looked her in the eyes and said, “Do you honestly believe that I am either teaching them differently, or not at all? For the most part, they are choosing to play, disrupt, be defiant, and skip class. Of course they are going to have lower scores.” She said that I may have to be put on a growth plan. I said, “Go ahead, and you’ll look like a fool because overall, test scores in my classes were consistently in the top 10% in the district, and it was a large district. She ended up not putting me on a growth plan, but I decided then and there that I was going to look for another place to work. I took a much lower paying position in a rural school district, and have not been happier.
“I teach and just recently changed school districts. At my previous school, my (black) principal called me into her office one day and demanded to know why the white and hispanic kids in my classes were out performing the black kids by such a large margin year after year. This principal had been at our school for 3 years at this time. I looked her in the eyes and said, “Do you honestly believe that I am either teaching them differently, or not at all? For the most part, they are choosing to play, disrupt, be defiant, and skip class. Of course they are going to have lower scores.” She said that I may have to be put on a growth plan. I said, “Go ahead, and you’ll look like a fool because overall, test scores in my classes were consistently in the top 10% in the district, and it was a large district. She ended up not putting me on a growth plan, but I decided then and there that I was going to look for another place to work. I took a much lower paying position in a rural school district, and have not been happier.”
You should have told her that we can send men to the moon, but we haven’t been able to create a standardized test where blacks and hispanics score as well as whites.
GOOD FOR YOU !
For standing up against this nonsense political correctness.
To my knowledge there is not one school district in the entire country where black kids in substantial numbers equal or outperform white and hispanic kids.
Do the racialists really believe the nation's public school teachers, who are on average very liberal, are trying to make black kids fail? Can they be that stupid? It's time to face facts.