Posted on 06/05/2019 6:10:44 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Three former high-ranking administrators have sued New York City Department of Education and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza, claiming that they were demoted because they’re white. It’s an explosive charge, and one that must be proved—but the allegations reflect, at minimum, the intensifying racial tensions since Carranza took charge of the nation’s largest, most complex public school system 13 months ago.
The chancellor threw down the race gauntlet virtually on Day One. He picked fights with white parents on the Upper West Side and in Brooklyn’s Park Slope, promised to achieve racial balance in the city’s famous selective-admissions high schools by essentially “reforming” them out of existence, and commissioned a $23 million “implicit-bias” social-conditioning regimen that lies at the heart of the former administrators’ $80 million lawsuit.
The program, first reported by the New York Post, assumes that New York City’s majority-minority public school students struggle because the system’s white-majority teachers and staff, consciously or otherwise, bring racist attitudes to work with them—and that this, rather than substandard teaching, administrative inertia, and non-classroom-related social issues, is the primary cause of classroom underperformance. Carranza’s reeducation program is the purported remedy, complete with racialist rhetoric, threats, and—if the suit is to be believed—race-based transfers and demotions. Eventually, all of the DoE’s 130,000-plus teachers and administrators will be subjected to such social conditioning.
Yet the DoE, despite repeated requests, can produce no empirical evidence that implicit bias exists in New York City’s schools. (This is likely because implicit bias itself is a dubious concept.) Rather than providing evidence of prejudice, the DoE justifies its program by pointing to a study prepared by an advocacy group, the Perception Institute, which itself makes no explicit case for racial bias in New York schools—or anywhere else, for that matter.
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The logic?
Blacks coming from “diverse” all black schools with “diverse” black teachers are getting an inferior education.
So they need to be shoved into well performing white schools with white teachers with affirmative action.
And then we need to get rid of the white teachers in the name of diversity. So, in the end, it will be just anothrr low performing black school with black teachers.
New York has a tradition of having radical leftist Chancellors. Anyone remember “Heather has two mommies and Daddy’s roommate”? The NY School Chancellor of the time made both books part of the k-6 curriculum. That was just the beginning. Now we we have schools forcing 13 year old girls to shower with creeps claiming to be girls.
PING!
I do not have any first-hand knowledge of the NYC school. But my experience teaches me that when a sizable percentage, say 25% or so, of the students are allowed to be pretty much out of control, the race of the students or teachers, is irrelevant—the school will fail and only the students with the very strongest of personal character and self-discipline will have any chance of getting a good education.
The fact that the students who are out of control tend to be black makes it appear to be a racial issue when it really isn’t. Our society as a whole, especially in the cities has lost the self-confidence to require the disrupters to behave or get out. Black kids in America 100 years ago with all of the attendant racism of the era had a better chance of a decent education than many do today.
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