This is more about the left’s “soft bigotry of low expectations.”
‘Literacy’ test for teachers may be nixed
State education officials plan to scrap a literacy exam given to prospective teachers and allow certification for some applicants who fail a performance assessment test – moves that critics warned will weaken the pool of candidates.
Via Gary DeMar:
Bleeding heart liberals think they are doing immigrant children a favor by coddling them.
The teachers need to be qualified, and it does matter to me what their race or nationality is. But it does matter to the education leaders in New York. It seems that you do not have to be literate to teach in NY Public Schools:
A New York literacy test designed to weed out unqualified teachers, called the Academic Literacy Skills Test, is to be done away with by the New York State Board of Regents as suggested by a task force according to The Associated Press.
The reason for eliminating the test is due to the fact that whites predominantly pass the exam at 64 percent, while other minorities such as blacks and latinos, pass the test with a 46 percent and 41 percent success rate respectively.
This might sound harsh, but if blacks and latinos can’t even get a 50 percent score, they shouldn’t be teaching anything. When I went to school, 64 percent was barely a D. And these are the teachers!
“In 2013-14, only 48 percent of aspiring black teachers and 56 percent of prospective Hispanic educators passed, compared to 75 percent of white candidates, the website Chalkbeat reported in February.” (NY Post) Even a score of 75 percent (C+) is not good enough. “He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches.”1 New York is proving the adage to be true.
Take a guess what the reason is for the low test scores. Go ahead. Guess. You know what it is:
“Opponents to ridding New York of the test believe that this will lead to teachers with a weak ability to teach, however, Kate Walsh, the president of National Council on Teacher Quality said the reason minorities are scoring lower on the test is due to poverty and racism.”