Posted on 12/22/2021 12:44:56 PM PST by grundle
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has deemed math proficiency tests for teachers “unconstitutional” due to “racial disparities.”
The court ruled that because non-white teachers are less likely to pass the math test, it should no longer be required.
As one social media commentator aptly pointed out, Ontario teachers no longer need to pass basic math in order to teach basic math.
As bad as your first-impression take on this might be, it's actually even worse. Read closely: this math proficiency test isn't for the students, it's for THE TEACHERS. Your Ontario teacher no longer needs to pass basic math to teach basic math.
The Daily Caller reports that “schools in Ontario had previously offered candidates the opportunity to retake the test multiple times, but the court ruled that ‘racialized teacher candidates who have been disproportionately unsuccessful on the MPT should not have to keep retaking the test.'”
Obviously, as was pointed out in court, students learn more from teachers who understand the subject that they are teaching. However, the court ruled that it was more important to have diversity in the classroom.
“Racialized students benefit from being taught by racialized teachers,” the court decision stated. “The deleterious effects of the MPT on racialized teacher candidates who have been unsuccessful in the test outweighs its benefits.”
According to the Ottawa Citizen, “the test has 50 mathematics content questions and 21 questions about math pedagogy. The applicant has to score 70 per cent on both parts to pass.”
“Racialized teacher candidates have gone through an education system in which they have suffered discrimination and disadvantage,” the decision said. “The candidates are then required to take ‘high stakes’ standardized tests which the available data shows they are more likely to fail.”
All the better to promote the teaching of CRT Math.
The Chinese are laughing at you.
Competence is unconstitutional?
Well the - the district can short math teachers on their paychecks and they won't be able to figure it out........hehe....
Who comes up with these policies, China?
they have to pass a test which begins like this:
Ramon has an AK-47 with a 30-round clip. He usually misses 6 out of every 10 shots and he uses 13 rounds per drive-by shooting. How many drive-by shootings can Ramon attempt before he has to steal enough ammunition and reload?
Leroy has 2 ounces of cocaine. If he sells an 8 ball to Antonio for $320 and 2 grams to Juan for $85 per gram, what is the street value of the rest of his hold?
Dwayne pimps 3 ho’s. If the price is $85 per trick, how many tricks per day must each ho turn to support Dwayne’s $500 per day crack habit?
Tyrone knocked up 4 girls in his gang. There are 20 girls in the gang. What percentage of the girls in the gang has Tyrone knocked up?
PLEASE tell me this is really from Babylon Bee.
Being educated means you know better than to vote Commucrat.
Math is now ‘racist’ but it was invented over 7000 years ago in Sumer, ancient Mesopotamia, where Iraq is now (at least those are the earliest written records we currently have; cuneiform tablets).
So, Is Ontario lacking Chinese, Indian, Pakistani, etc. Potential Math teachers?
Are Indians and Asians now considered “white”? Or, is there something else going on here?
Opinion is online. 37 pages of drivel.
The evidence (universities and colleges as hotbeds of communist thought) says otherwise.
“Ramon has an AK-47 with a 30-round clip.”
This is Canada, not U.S.
According to BLM and CRT numbers can also change their sex. You might ask what is the sex or gender of the number 7. Well you first have to call 7 by its special pronoun, before you get an answer. 7 grew up in a minority group of natural numbers that lived all by itself in nature. And then they were told they had rights too.
Of course the test is the problem!
Why is this a surprise? We have always known: Those that cannot do, teach.
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