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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- New York Times, March 13, 2017
New York made their bed, let them sleep in it.
The bad part is, other more responsible states will have to bail them and California and Illinois and Washington and other Great Reset focused states out in the near term, until the whole USA is bankrupt. Did
America;Rewarding mediocracy one day at a time with taxpayer money.
How exactly is awarding these individuals $350k each for failing a responsible settlement?
All adult Americans should be allowed the opportunity to take this test online and have their test scores ranked in real time.
>> Rewarding mediocracy
Inferior in comparison to those that passed
It’s obvious these fools wasted the taxpayers money going to college but it’s also obvious they’ll never be “teachers”.
More than 90% of white test-takers passed the 80-question multiple-choice and essay Liberal Arts and Sciences Test
Didn't read the article?
Didn’t read the post I was replying to?
Fail a test, win $2 million dollars. Only in the United States of Lunacy.
Fact-based tests that all teachers should know for their subjects, are not racially biased tests. All these people are contributing to the downfall of our country.
I am not going to do your work for you.
I guess White males who work for the school system are also " f’ing retarded". Yes or No?
There’s numbers indicating to whom a person is posting.
You must be a white woman due to your anger.
You’re probably just on your period.
Take a Midol with some wine and watch a Meredith Baxter Birney movie.
Was math on the test?
Don’t need no tests.
If the powers that be in NY aim to de-emphasize “institutionally white supremacist” education, and focus on teaching about race and gender identity rather than “white supremacist” subjects like math, science, Western European culture, etc. then what they need is an oral interview or essay in which the applicant can demonstrate the “correct” perspective.
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The fruit of affirmative action.
People who are not qualified to teach can’t pass the teacher exams and then are rewarded with a windfall for being too incompetent to do their jobs.
I don’t suppose that anyone involved in this noticed the huge number of PoC who DID manage to pass the test. If it were racially biased, then they would not exist.
Therefore the only conclusion to be reached is that those who failed weren’t and aren’t qualified to teach, and it’s NOT racism.
If it’s a joke, it’s not funny.
You misspelled *always*.
This will open up lawsuits against every test imaginable.
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