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To: artichokegrower

The state of New York recently passed a law requiring prospective school teachers to take a literacy test to get their license, but repealed it the following year because 36 percent of whites failed the test on the first try, while 54 percent of Hispanics and 59 percent of blacks failed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/nyregion/ny-regents-teacher-exams-alst.html

In other words the State of New York is knowingly putting a large number of illiterate teachers in classrooms.

Nothing will change until that changes


6 posted on 12/28/2019 2:15:34 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats only believe in democracy when they win the election.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

In other words the State of New York is knowingly putting a large number of illiterate teachers in classrooms.

Its a baby sitting job, corrections officers are doing the same. The next step in their lives


7 posted on 12/28/2019 2:21:29 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“In other words the State of New York is knowingly putting a large number of illiterate teachers in classrooms...Nothing will change until that changes”

I’m not optimistic as most people, EVEN HERE, still send their kids to public schools, rather than seriously consider options (such as living in a smaller house/apartment, not quite keeping up with the Jones’, driving a small car to to the office, rather than an F350, etc.).


9 posted on 12/28/2019 4:03:50 AM PST by BobL (I drive a pickup truck to work because it makes me feel like a man.)
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