[Altura Ct.]

Yea for equal outcomes!

[albie]

No mention of fat, stupid gays! What about them?

[norwaypinesavage]

"Nearly 300 who didn't score high enough on entrance exams in 1999 and 2002 will take test again."

New Test:
1)Is your skin color white? If no, go to 3.
2) You have failed the test, turn in your papers.
3)Can you breathe?
4)You have passed the test with a score of 100.

[Gay State Conservative]

It worked for the Obamas (both of them) as well as Liz Warren (who,I think,now claims to be 1/452nd Indian).Why shouldn't it work for a couple of hundred guy who scored 20 on their first test.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”Nearly 300 black and Latino firefighter candidates who didn’t score high enough to join the FDNY in 1999 and 2002 are getting a rare opportunity take their entrance exams again.
They’ll sit for the FDNY written exam Friday, and an intense physical fitness test will follow later.
If they can rack up passing grades on both, the job with generous pension, sick pay and other benefits could be within their grasp.
The break is part of a controversial ruling from Brooklyn Judge Nicholas Garaufis, who in July found the FDNY guilty of discrimination after a group of black firefighters and the Vulcan Society successfully challenged the methodology of its entrance exams.
Garaufis ordered the city to pay $187 million in damages.”

Fairness and justice are far more important than safety.

[DemforBush]

The Village Voice ran a story a couple years back on some of the more obvious questions on FDNY exam. I’m sure they aren’t all this easy, but seriously...if you’re not making the grade with some of these thrown in, I’m not sure you should be trusted with a library card, much less fighting fires.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2010/12/the_10_most_idi.php

Also, I found a generic practice test for firefighters to get a feel for some of the questions one might see on the FDNY test. Some of these are maybe a little picky, but a whole lot of them make a whole lot of sense to me. If you’ve got a candidate - Latino, black, white, or Martian - who doesn’t understand the dynamics of flame spread, or doesn’t know the proper procedure for dealing with a gas leak - then maybe those folks ought not to be hired.

http://tests.com/practice/Firefighter-Practice-Test

[Terry Mross]

I know some obama suckers who were pissed off when he appointed Sotomayor to the SC over this exact case. Of course they’re still obama suckers.

[Andrei Bulba]

This is why we need reparations. Yes, I mean us.

[tomkat]

What could possibly go wrong ? !

[SharpRightTurn]

Everyone knows tests are a racist plot to keep “underrepresented populations” from success.

Perhaps Brooklyn Judge Nicholas Garaufis will just ban tests outright and then everything will be grand. The city may burn down due to incompetence but, hey, we’ll feel real good about ourselves, right?

[libertarian27]

Can the stupid Caucasians take the test again too?

[Larry381]

I'll always remember when I was younger, the huge, hulking cops that made up the NYPD. As I grew older I assumed that maybe they just seemed like giants to me, a young, impressionable kid.

But guess what? They really were huge!
In those days one had to be at least five foot ten to even consider taking the police exam-at least until it was found that tall cops were actually being discriminatory because they were so.....tall. A few years later the height requirement was dropped mainly because it was said to prevent many women and Hispanics from the job.
So we went from a police department with literal giants to what we have today when there are actually cops under five feet tall that look as though my sister could jack their weapons off them-and forget about them when it comes to a punch-out with criminals-it's no contest!

[AirborneMedic]

What about the Whites, Asians, Arabs, Jews or Hot Icelandic Females who failed?

[Vaduz]

Affirmative Action = Hire the stupid

[Jeff Chandler]

. . . in 1999 and 2002 are getting a rare opportunity take their entrance exams again.
 . . . and an intense physical fitness test will follow later.

11-13 years older? Don't count on too many getting through that.

Of course, the next court ruling will declare physical requirements to be discriminatory to old, fat people.