Posted on 08/20/2022 7:55:33 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Following a decision by the Minnesota Public Schools, a new policy has been enacted that will lay off white teachers first — if the district needs to downsize, white teachers will be fired first.
As my colleague Jeff Charles reported, the agreement states:
“Starting with the Spring 2023 Budget Tie-Out Cycle, if excessing a teacher who is a member of a population underrepresented among licensed teachers in the site, the District shall excess the next least senior teacher, who is not a member of an underrepresented population.”
Following the decision, constitutional lawyer Hans Bader wrote an op-ed, as noted by my colleague, which states:
“It is illegal under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. When it comes to termination (as opposed to hiring or promotion under an affirmative-action plan), an employer can’t racially discriminate even against whites. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in 1996 that an school district can’t consider race even as a tie-breaker, in deciding who to lay off, even to promote diversity, because that (a) unduly trammels the white teacher’s rights — even affirmative action plans are supposed to be mild and not unduly trammel someone’s rights, and getting fired as opposed to being denied a promotion unduly trammels someone’s rights — and (b) putting that aside, the school district couldn’t consider race to promote diversity when black people weren’t seriously underrepresented in its workforce as a whole. That ruling was Taxman v. Board of Education of Piscataway, 91 F.3d 1547 (3d Cir. 1996).”
Despite the backlash this blatantly racist policy has received, it was recently defended by the president and vice president of the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers. On Friday, in an appearance on ABC, Greta Callahan, president of the teachers’ union, said:
“This contract language was something that we are, first of all, extremely proud of for achieving but it also doesn’t go far enough … We need to support and retain our educators, especially those who are underrepresented, and this language does one tiny, minuscule step towards that but doesn’t solve the real crisis we’re in right now.”
Marcia Howard, the teachers’ union vice president, added:
“This is the language that we put in and that we went out and marched for … We voted on this, the district and the union agreed upon this and now it’s coming out because some Minnesotan website decided to put it out there and the MAGA media picked it up and they were waiting for mainstream media to run with this story. It’s a non-story. It was language about the event of a layoff and we are nowhere near having layoffs this year. We’re down like 250 teachers. We’re down. There are no layoffs. So I ask y’all why? Why is this a story?”
Minneapolis Federation of Teachers President Greta Callahan and Vice President Marcia Howard address the controversy over prioritizing the retention of teachers of color over those with seniority.#GMA3 pic.twitter.com/FFeUpfuoIx
— GMA3: What You Need To Know (@ABCGMA3) August 19, 2022
All mainstream media outlets and the local channels in Minneapolis should have picked up this story because it is newsworthy, not just “MAGA media.” But once again, they must make this about Trump. They still bring up his MAGA slogan, even about something that has absolutely nothing to do with him.
LEO TERRELL on Minneapolis teachers union agreement that stipulates white teachers would be laid off first: "It's racist and should be invalidated immediately." pic.twitter.com/DFjRFOwLdj
— Martin Golobic (@golobicm) August 16, 2022
I can’t believe this needs to be said, but teachers — and any profession — should be hired for being the most qualified, hardest working, skilled, talented, and most prepared person for the job, regardless of race or ethnicity. Callahan said she’s “extremely proud” of the policy. This further divides us as a nation. Racism and discrimination in all forms are bad, and that’s exactly what this policy is, and those who advocate against racism and discrimination need to speak up against it.
I would love to see Greta laid off and replace with Marcia. Do it Minnesota!
Yep. Watch the commercials today. We are overcompensating for the crap from the 1960’s.
It doesn’t seem to me that whites have issues with this or other crap in Minnesota. They keep voting these types of people into state and federal government.
Half of the conservatives would want to make sure they got in the correct line and stood up straight while they boarded the trains to the camps.
*“It is a non story if they take it sitting down”
And they don’t have to.*
*All that needs to happen is a lawsuit filed in federal court.*
True. So why do they go down this road knowing it won’t happen?
Answer-It moves their ideas forward. Raises eyebrows. There’s push then pushback. They are the aggressor and we play defense. They’ll move 2 steps forward then one step back.
Ok so it’s in the law to not discriminate and they go against it. Do you think the law wills stop the left? “It’s in the constitution”. Does that stop them?
Racists.
“So why do they go down this road knowing it won’t happen?”
We live in a world of information, most hidden and a lot more hard to find. People in our society no longer have to be concerned with getting by cause they are allowed to gain just to be stable. And they have been taught to consider that success.
So if something is done to them that they don’t feel the pain, and they are supplied with something else immediately that many times has a false moral to it and is displayed as so horrible, it becomes the “next” problem and the old one goes on the back burner until the government wants to return to it. And that may or may not happen until it causes new pain and another “next” will be provided.
So the US citizens mire themselves in defeat disguised as success...and celebrate and reward the people that control their thoughts they surrendered to. And that is only because we were the best place in the world to live in by our people earning it. Now the current crop is spending those earnings until they dry up. Then whoever has the most toys at the end wins even though they all lose.
wy69
I guess their graduates being permanently unemployable is a non-story, too.
Eating their own.
The very first tenet of any Union that I am familiar with is that ‘Seniority Rules.’ This is suicide for these Union managers.
That MPS contract clause doesn't stand a prayer in hell, and you'd have to think the Walz administration knows it, which just adds to the Schadenfreude.
Just simply represent the strongest early case against this policy, either via the ADA or more particularly, the Minnesota Human Rights Act, which protects "sexual orientation and gender identity". Think of the optics of a purple-haired white lesbian, but not unattractive, and described in the MSM as a "beloved young teacher", suing the everlasting crap out of MPS, with the black womens having to 'splain why Liz Bien gotta go lofl...
Ram it down their throats. Bankrupt that r@tchet and the union -- force MPS to cross-claim against MFT. Go on cable news every night while you're doing it. Punch down, punch down, punch down.
“oppressed” education guarantees “minds of mush” = democrat job security.
Proud to be racists.... !
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