...firing bad Black teachers is racist.
More important to keep Black teacher in the classroom than actually teaching the urban youth.
Everything is racial to progressives.
Any school with tenure pretty much advertises the fact that they really don’t give a smelly Obama about the quality of their staff.
“There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. ~ Booker T. Washington (1856-1915.) ~ Educator, Author, Civil Rights Leader
The grievance industry expects highest profits ever! Each lawsuit against school districts expected to bring a minimum of ten million dollars. Yes, if you are black you are entitled to take advantage of your Black Privilege . . . .
How necessary are teacher tenure laws in our era?
First, it depends on how true is the notion that teacher tenure laws preserve a teacher’s freedom to speaker his/her mind on controversial subjects. It is a no-brainer to me that Americans are accosted in the work place for speaking their minds. This is especially true for conservatives. It is even more true for conservative teachers. Think about being a global warming skeptic, a Christian, or a political conservative. Do we honestly think they are free to speak in their workplace?
Second, it depends on how fair-minded one considers public school administrators. I don’t consider them fair-minded at all. So many of them are elevated elementary teachers or phys/ed teachers who have no business evaluating anyone, and certainly not math/science teachers at a higher level than their own teaching certifications. Also, there is a huge issue with cronyism and nepotism in our school systems. Administrators, as humans, elevate their pals and stiff arm those who aren’t pals. What does this mean when it comes to evaluation time? You will say, “The tests will level it out.” Not really. I’ve heard of some bizarre things. The strangest is a geometry teacher who was given an end of year evaluation test to administer to students, and the test did not include even one geometry question. Why? Because some incompetent administrator purchased a testing evaluation scheme that didn’t fit reality. (No doubt the company provided ‘incentives’ for purchase.)
So, do teachers still need tenure due to overbearing systems that will unfairly censor them and unfairly evaluate them?
Yes.
Even if you point to a white lousy teacher it’s still racist
Can’t wait to vote
“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”
Hmm, thats an interesting stat right there....not surprising but interesting.
The author is making no judgement upon the competency of black teachers. His argument is ‘disparate impact’, that any policy, even those with good intentions, that have a greater adverse impact upon a minority is discriminatory.
Title VII prohibits employers “from using a facially neutral employment practice that has an unjustified adverse impact on members of a protected class. A facially neutral employment practice is one that does not appear to be discriminatory on its face; rather it is one that is discriminatory in its application or effect.
The author’s point is that since black constitute a higher percentage of teachers affected by the court decision then they may have a case under Title VII. The operative point is whether these impacts are justified.
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.
“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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
bkmk
Wait, is his argument really that getting rid of bad teachers means getting rid of Black teachers?
O.K. so who is the racist here?