Posted on 07/15/2023 1:52:07 PM PDT by thegagline
Failing the New York State teachers’ exam really paid off — especially for a Queens man who learned this month he’s getting a $2 million windfall over it.
Roughly 5,200 black and Hispanic ex-Big Apple teachers and once-aspiring educators are expected to collect more than $1.8 billion in judgments after the city stopped fighting a nearly three-decade federal discrimination lawsuit that found a certification exam was biased.
It’s the largest legal payout in city history.
Court rulings found the exam violated civil-rights laws, allowing far more white candidates to pass.
The case is expected to generate hundreds of other future million-dollar awards. *** Under an agreement ironed out in November 2021 during then-Mayor Bill de Blasio’s final weeks in office, the city agreed to set aside more than $1.8 billion in funds to pay off the plaintiffs through 2028. ***
One Brooklyn principal said the city was “crazy” to settle the case.
“The standards are the standards,” he said. “It shouldn’t be based on what would be easy for blacks or whites. To hire people who are not qualified and change the requirements because a certain group didn‘t pass the test is bulls–t.”
More than 90% of white test-takers passed the 80-question multiple-choice and essay Liberal Arts and Sciences Test between March 1993 and June 1995 — one version of which had questions such as asking teachers to explain the meaning of a painting by pop artist Andy Warhol.
But black applicants on average scored passing grades only 53% of the time, and Latinos had an even lower passing rate, just 50%, according to the lawsuit.
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I do not understand the mentality of any White applying for that job.
Q. What is 2+2?
A. How dare you! That’s racist! You owe reparations! I’ll see you in court!
I’m waiting for the punchline of this joke.
I’m waiting for the punchline of this joke.
It pays to be stupid.
At least, in America.
Let’s see actual copies of these tests given in the 1990’s to look how biased they supposedly were. I have a feeling most people who are sufficiently educated could pass these exams.
This world has turned upside down where failure has resulted in being rewarded.
In less than a generation from now, we’ll be learning how to speak Mandarin for our Chinese invaders.
The criminal justice system and public education has collapsed in Democratic run urban areas. New York City is unlivable for ordinary decent, rational people. Its going broke. The politicians there will demand that hard working American taxpayers bail them out and pay for this and other abominations. Of course if those hard working people resist, they will be called racist, white supremacists.
I grew up in NYC and escaped in 2010, but do people still live there...intentionally??
White women are f’ing retarded. The males probably are looking to cornhole kids.
Well, I couldn’t explain the meaning of a warhol painting either.
Rewarded for sucking.
I recall this story from way back when. Really tells you a lot about teacher education. I guess that’s why they completely gave up teaching altogether for grooming. Grooming is easier than math.
I grow weary of negroes with chips on their shoulders.
The test was biased because… one plus one didn’t equal two ?
To make money by preying on gullible wealthy people.
Black privilege.
For the same reason trans "athletes" want to compete in women's events.
What Warhol was saying is we’re all the same, even if we’re different colors.
EXACTLY the same. And weird colors.
Or maybe he was showing people what the world looks like to Drew’s family.
Groovy.
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