Fleeing from Diversity

Townhall.com ^ | September 20, 2015 | Paul Jacob

[Gaffer]

What on earth are these teachers escaping from?

Escaping from having to demonstrate their competency by actual performance of their students in a fair manner.

[stubernx98]

Cities all run by DemocRATS - lefties

[Brooklyn Attitude]

Maybe some standards were implemented?

[Pontiac]

I think it raises big questions about “fleeing”: What on earth are these teachers escaping from?

Could these public school systems be . . . terrifying?

This was my first guess.

The daughter of a friend of mine for a little over a year taught a the local inner city elementary school.

Even the little kids were terrifying.

According to her streams of racist profanity would spew from some the kids’ mouths.

As soon as she could find a suburban school job she took a pay cut and got out.

[A_perfect_lady]

Minority teachers have significantly higher quit rates than non-minority teachers.

Here's that ugly kernel of truth, folks: when the going gets tough, whites and Asians hang in there. I'm sorry, but we just do. It's part of our culture, this idea that you dig in your claws and hang on like a pitbull. Certain other cultures have a "hey, don't strain yourself" attitude toward... well, just about everything. I have come to this conclusion over many decades of observation and I did not WANT to come to this conclusion, but it's unavoidable. I don't consider myself racist, because it's not genetic as far as I know. But I am definitely ethnocentric, because it's culture. I mean... I am a teacher. I teach mostly Latinos. A full third of them won't come to school if it's raining.

Seriously, raining. I grew up in the northern Midwest, and we waited for the school bus in the dark in 3 feet of snow. These kids? Ooo, it's raining.

[Steely Tom]

[”Hey, don’t strain yourself”] == [”Hakuna Matata”]

[Jack Hydrazine]

What does rain have to do with anything? You get your buttocks to school regardless.

[Gaffer]

The City of Atlanta recently concluded a very big scandal prosecution of multiple minority teachers within its school system for colluding to actually change students’ test scores.

Whether it was the teachers’ incompetence or the ability of their charges to meet the education standard is really immaterial. The culture is at fault for both sides.

For Democrats, the only way to remedy instances like this is to throw buckets of money at them. That’s always the only option.

[Ultima]

Blacks and High Steel

http://www.amren.com/news/2009/05/blacks_and_high/

[LouAvul]

My perspective of many school systems is that students are largely feral animals who know they risk no real punishment. If they're black they really risk no consequence for their ghetto behavior.

Diversity is a joke and is the bane of civilization.

[JoeProBono]

[A_perfect_lady]

The remark about people coming in late... I've seen that, too. In my last school, the staff was very diverse, but when it came to showing up at meetings, at trainings, at WORK... it was always the same. First people there were whites, Asians, Armenians, Jews... then the Latino wave comes in... then Blacks trickle in.

I mean, it's not 100%. We had a black principal who was always there, right on point, very dedicated, and I liked him a lot. But the trends... the trends are what they are. Even Black folks joke about CPT (Colored People Time.)

[tanknetter]

This article misses what could be happening by MILES.

It ignores the fact that the suburbs around these major cities all certainly have diversity quotas of their own for teachers.

So say you're a Black teacher in DC. If you go take a teaching slot in Fairfax County you get much better pay, much better benefits and a much better working environment and if you decide to live there a much better living environment and quality of life.

Correction: you take a set aside teaching slot.

It's a no-brainer.

It would be really interesting to see what the hiring trends for the suburban schools around these cities were over the same period, racial/ethnic makeup of the teachers and where they were coming in from.

[North Coast Conservative]

Hey There, Long time no see, things are calm for the moment amongst the corn fields and gas wells in Western Pa.

when we left NEOhio Mrs NCC continued teaching when we got here, she would have continued in Painesville had we not left. She had way more problems with the superintendent, and the very ineffective principal of the school she was leaving than she ever had with the kids.

Some of the parents had booze/drug problem, I think most were all right. She loved the kids, many wanted to learn. The biggest drawback to the educational system in Painesville was the school system.

[Cowboy Bob]

I had friends who taught in the New Orleans public school system. They told me 30 years ago that when it rains, the Blacks didn’t go to school.

[A_perfect_lady]

Yeah, there’s a reason why the minority divide always puts Asians and Jews with the whites, and Blacks and Latinos together. There are just cultural norms having to do with work and effort that... are... well... THERE. Some people rise above, and some people sink below, but... there you have it.

[GOPJ]

I think it raises big questions about “fleeing”: What on earth are these teachers escaping from?

In Atlanta black teachers were fleeing from being caught cheating. In some states black teachers were fleeing from 'literacy standards' for teachers...

Colleges were NOT doing blacks a favor by letting them slide in college classes... they hurt the future teachers... they hurt children who deserved to have professionals in their classrooms.

Black teachers also fled because black schools are often more violent and difficult to teach in.... So many truthful reason... so many NOT PC reasons..

[kearnyirish2]

“students who are racially paired with teachers — black teachers working with black students and Hispanic teachers working with Hispanic students — do better academically”

There you go...Just pass them with meaningless grades.

[kearnyirish2]

Here in NJ the only way to get them to show up is by threatening the mothers’ freebies. The kids show up and simply play; education isn’t even on the table.