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Black, Hispanic New Yorkers Get $1.8B Settlement From NYC for Failing Teaching Aptitude Test
Information Liberation ^ | Jul. 18, 2023 | Chris Menahan

Posted on 07/18/2023 7:18:29 AM PDT by Red Badger

The aptitude test was deemed racially "biased" because too many white people passed.

From New York Post, "Black, Hispanic NYers who failed teacher’s test strike $1.8B in NYC settlement": 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.

[...] Arthur Goldstein, a recently retired veteran teacher at Francis Lewis High School in Queens, said the former test wasn't a good indicator of how well candidates would perform in the classroom and the city would've been better off resolving the issue decades ago by hiring many of those who sued. "Herman Grim, 64, of Queens, on July 5 was awarded the biggest judgment to date -- a jaw-dropping $2,055,383," the NY Post reported.

This settlement is one of many that's effectively reparations through the backdoor.


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1 posted on 07/18/2023 7:18:29 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Needs to be appealed. Facts are facts, they aren’t racial. Learning math and history and English and biology isn’t racial. There aren’t different answers depending on your genetic characteristics/traits.


2 posted on 07/18/2023 7:21:22 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Red Badger

This was basically the mechanism chosen to do reparations.


3 posted on 07/18/2023 7:22:09 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Red Badger

Are sample copies of the exam available?


4 posted on 07/18/2023 7:23:56 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: Red Badger

“Black, Hispanic”

The two groups that arguably have the worst grasp on the English language. 😏


5 posted on 07/18/2023 7:23:59 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Red Badger

Those individuals with LESSER IQs must be REWARDED UNLESS, of course, they are WHITE OR ASIAN. It must be in the US Constitution somewhere.


6 posted on 07/18/2023 7:24:09 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAX’)
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To: Red Badger

I saw a video on Twitter of one of the teachers set to receive $2 million bucks. He speaks with the verbal dexterity of someone with an 80 IQ while his smoke detector chirps in the background in need of a replacement battery.


7 posted on 07/18/2023 7:26:43 AM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins.)
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To: Red Badger

ALL testing eliminated for colleges, universities, employment, etc. in 3...2...1...

This opens the door for lawsuits for ANY given test where the results show blacks failing.


8 posted on 07/18/2023 7:29:29 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (What did Socialists use before Candles?..... Electricity)
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To: Red Badger

https://giphy.com/clips/drunk-stupid-fat-iuv0ZKiv7RGpI2q7bI

It works well for some.


9 posted on 07/18/2023 7:40:27 AM PDT by csn vinnie
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To: Red Badger

This is nothing but Lawfare to bring down the Republic.


10 posted on 07/18/2023 7:40:58 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (Biden will mess up the Ukraine worse than Afghanistan.)
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To: Red Badger

You cannot say what is so obvious.


11 posted on 07/18/2023 7:42:57 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Red Badger

Dear God, please give American Government bankruptcy.

Their printed, fiat, manipulated money and its massive debt have turned money into a weapon of political corruption and tyranny.


12 posted on 07/18/2023 7:50:35 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Maine Mariner

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f_g7npCUGnwhzQZ8aXtapegIEf2x4Y61/view?usp=drivesdk


13 posted on 07/18/2023 7:59:16 AM PDT by MNDude (Once you remove "they would never" from your Trump shared a post on soci it all begins to make sense)
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To: Red Badger

The many many many aptitude tests I took throughout my long life I ALWAYS prepared for. I never expected to sit back and get drunk hoping the tests would be dumbed down to fit my low motivated life-style...geez. And now those whobdont care are getting rich over this??? That’s like those that say God (the higher power) needs to adjust to us, not to Him.


14 posted on 07/18/2023 8:01:13 AM PDT by Deepeasttx ( Sensitivity/diversity training, along with DEI are all un-walled reeducation camps....for now.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I went to the Chicago Bears tryouts. I was not picked. Can I sue for racial discrimination.


15 posted on 07/18/2023 8:47:46 AM PDT by midwest_hiker
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To: midwest_hiker
I went to the Chicago Bears tryouts. I was not picked.

Dang, you must really suck.

16 posted on 07/18/2023 8:50:15 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: wildcard_redneck

“This is nothing but Lawfare to bring down the Republic.”

Yes it is expect to see more like this.

Wait till it gets to EMTs, Doctors, Pilots, Engineers, etc.

Someone could actually get together a bunch of Black and Hispanics get them to purposely fail a test and then file a lawsuit.


17 posted on 07/18/2023 8:57:39 AM PDT by nomorelurker
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To: Red Badger

As a non-new yourker, I say increase it 1000 times! Rot!


18 posted on 07/18/2023 9:10:37 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It ( )
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To: Maine Mariner
Here is a description of the L.A.S.T. test and its components, with passing rates Here.
19 posted on 07/18/2023 10:54:03 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: midwest_hiker

Yes. Yes you can. Also for body shaming. They have biased physical requirements.


20 posted on 07/18/2023 11:11:26 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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