...firing bad Black teachers is racist.
More important to keep Black teacher in the classroom than actually teaching the urban youth.
Posted on 08/28/2014 10:37:14 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
After the Vergara v. California decision in California’s state Supreme Court, which held that key job protections for teachers are unconstitutional, anti-union advocates everywhere began spawning copycat lawsuits. But while reformers may genuinely want to fix education for everyone, their efforts will only worsen diversity in the teaching corps. The truth is that an attack on bad teacher tenure laws (and ineffective teachers in general) is actually an attack on black professionals. If the Vergara clones succeed, black children will lose effective teachers and the black community will lose even more middle-class jobs.
Black workers are most likely to hold public sector union jobs. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, among the major ethnic groups, blacks (13.6 percent) represent the highest percentage of union members among the total number of workers (whites are 11 percent; Asians are 9.4 percent; and Hispanics are 9.4 percent), and the highest unionization rates among all professions were in the education services occupations (35.3 percent). In 26 of the 48 jurisdictions (states plus the District of Columbia) where at least some black and some white teachers are covered by collective bargaining agreements, blacks are more likely to be covered by agreements than whites. This is the case in California, where the Vergara decision originated. Blacks are more likely to teach in urban areas in many states, and so are more likely to be covered by collective bargaining. Therefore, black teachers have much at stake in the Vergara decision.
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Tenure isn't the real problem, tenured teachers get fired all the time. Bad teachers don't get fired because they are protected by union contracts. Eliminating tenure will only effect districts that don't have a strong union. Knowing that the only job protection a teacher has is afford by the union and not the state; there will be a spike in union membership as current nonunion teachers seek protection.
But local boards wouldn't fire experienced teachers for petty reasons would they? Coaches don't have tenure, how many have been fired because they didn't give a board member's (or friend's kid) enough playing time? That's how we want classrooms run?
I think a better tact would be confronting the public sector union scam.
Of course, once the laws were passed by Republicans, Eisenhower delivered more civil rights than any other President.
BTW, Mr. B., Your answer is certainly correct.
So incompetent black teachers are a “protected” class?
Got it.
“The truth is that an attack on bad teacher tenure laws (and ineffective teachers in general) is actually an attack on black professionals”
Because the inescapable logical conclusion to that statement is that black professionals must be disproportionately more ineffective than the group as a whole? (That is, IF we assume that the original statement is a TRUE statement to begin with, of course.)
Evidently the author feels that black people are inferior and cannot be held to the same standards as everyone else.
...firing bad Black teachers is racist.
More important to keep Black teacher in the classroom than actually teaching the urban youth.
Hell, he was too stupid to know which end of the shovel to use. But he was good at basketball. He played college ball. He said. Oh, he could have graduated Alabama A&M. Doesn’t really matter I just didn’t want to disparage State if I may have been wrong.....
So minorities who were only admitted into a teaching program because of affirmative action, and who graduated due to affirmative action, and who were hired due to affirmative action and received tenure due to affirmative action, are less capable than people who earned their position? Stunning.
And since more black teachers teach at predominately black schools... and black kids don’t score as well on standardized test... it means: White people’s fault...
blacks (13.6 percent) represent the highest percentage of union members among the total number of workers (whites are 11 percent; Asians are 9.4 percent; and Hispanics are 9.4 percent),...
According to my math, that doesn’t equal 100%. What’s missing?
Booker T. Washington is absolutely one of my culture heroes. His gospel of hard work, willingness, diligence and perserverance was extremely inspiring to me as I entered the work force without as much education as I wanted back in the 60s. He inspired me to work twice as hard, if necessary, to prove myself; eventually I was able to get that education and pay for it from the profits of my successful business. Thank you for your posts honoring that extraordinary American. Wish more educators, black and white, would read his biography and take a clue from it.
No tenure for “real folks”? No tenure for worthless teachers! (Wouldn’t be a prob if all teachers were great). But why do we protect worthless ones?
Henceforward political policy is to be driven by the tragic deaths at the hands of enraged racists of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown.
The Administration is taking this election to the streets in an attempt to hold on to the Senate. Hell. might even work.
Oh please... Is he assuming that affirmative action hires are incompetent? THAT'S RACIST!!!
So, is Dr. Andre Perry,the founding dean of urban education at Davenport University, actually admitting that the education industry harbors ineffective black teachers, and shields them from accountability?
Or is he saying that teacher tenure is the only job protection for the mentally retarded education majors who have hit the welfare lottery with their bogus credentials?
Black workers are most likely to hold public sector union jobs.
Oh. Well, 96% of black voters voted for the communist, muslim, anti-American, Kenyan usurper odinga, simply based on his skin color, so that proves that 96% of blacks are racist.
If it wasn't skin color, then they would have to admit they actually agree with the idjit, and they too are anti-American, communist, etc., etc.
Enough. Feed them to the sharks.
That's exactly what this writer is saying. It's actually amazing-I had to read parts of the article twice to make sure, but there's no doubt about it.
Absolutely. “Up From Slavery” should be required reading for EVERY American.
He admits that the laws are bad, but then posits the non-sequitur that is is an attack on black professionals.
Make the laws better, and worsen the situation for black “professionals”.
And this guy is in education, himself.
It is all about race.
If you don’t believe it, they will shove it in your face.
Well that's only half his argument. The other half is that "if tenure isn't granted to incompetent teachers who are black . . . black children will lose effective teachers and the black community will lose even more middle-class jobs."
So black teachers who are incompetent are more effective than what? White teachers? (Although there is no shortage of idiot white unionized teachers, I can assure you.)
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