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2017-03-13 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Test meant to screen teachers instead weeded out minorities

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Posted by Fred 2017-03-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 We want high standards, without a doubt.

So we are going to lower or eliminates literacy standards for teachers...

Posted by CrazyFool 2017-03-13 00:25|| 2017-03-13 00:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Literacy is a privilege of contemporary elites. Antiquity is filled with tribes who thrived without it. The science is settled.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-03-13 03:42|| 2017-03-13 03:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Illiterates don't read blogs = don't vote the wrong way.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-03-13 03:47|| 2017-03-13 03:47|| Front Page Top

#4 "Weeding out"... how very crass and awkward. Hasn't anyone read Darwin ?

Posted by Besoeker 2017-03-13 04:01|| 2017-03-13 04:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Um, guys, the test isn't the problem. It's the low standards minorities have for themselves that's the problem. All you're doing is saying *YOU* don't expect any better of them, either.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2017-03-13 07:18|| 2017-03-13 07:18|| Front Page Top

#6 And the circle of poverty for the inner city continues...

Posted by DarthVader 2017-03-13 08:19|| 2017-03-13 08:19|| Front Page Top

#7 46 percent of Hispanic test takers

41 percent of black test takers

64 percent of white test takers

So hire the Hispanic and blacks that passed and improve the quality of students educations. The above is not as bad as the article makes it out to be.

The problem is not so much the quality of the teachers (although it is a factor) as it is the students, their parents and the support the students get at home.

My solutions, get rid of many, if not most, of the "experts" that seems to not have anything to do with actual teaching. Go back to the three "R"s (the basics) with additional core subjects as warranted. Give strong support to home, including home visits, to enlist parents support and enforcement in their children education.

/rant

Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-03-13 11:08|| 2017-03-13 11:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Having an illiterate workforce does.

Perfect snark. In so many ways.

Posted by gorb 2017-03-13 11:59|| 2017-03-13 11:59|| Front Page Top

#9 It's fun and often funny to make snarky remarks. But that means we're part of the problem. Lets try to be part of the solution and come up with some suggestions to resolve the education problem. Clearly the left failed, can we do better or do nothing and leave it to others to solve this?

Voting for a decent board of education is part of the solution, not keeping the same old tired do nothing board.

Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-03-13 15:39|| 2017-03-13 15:39|| Front Page Top

#10 Why concern ourselves with illiterate teachers, where there are so many pressing bathroom gender choices to sort out?

Posted by regular joe 2017-03-13 15:49|| 2017-03-13 15:49|| Front Page Top

#11 It's fun and often funny to make snarky remarks.

We make snarky remarks because it keeps us from getting murderously angry, SCFI.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-03-13 16:32|| 2017-03-13 16:32|| Front Page Top

#12 We make snarky remarks because it keeps us from getting murderously angry

And we know it will burn itself out given time. In the meantime, we roast marshmallows.

Posted by gorb 2017-03-13 16:38|| 2017-03-13 16:38|| Front Page Top

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