Yeah, I thought the position of the Teachers’ Unions was that there are no bad teachers, they’re all good. That’s why it’s almost impossible now to rate any teacher performance, that info is always hidden from the public.
So .... how did this small study determine that the minorities’ teachers are “not effective”?
Our local school district had one heckuva stinkstorm some years back when the Supt introduced, or tried to introduce,”Merit pay.” OMG! All the usual suspects got up in arms, stacked School Board, PTA, community meetings, etc. to block it.
I suggested at the time to a school board member that this highly organized opposition was rather ironic since teachers themselves spend their careers grading students, one from the next, acknowledging that some students really are better than others. Less so today, I suppose, when a class of 400 can have 20 Valedictorians.