[ClearCase_guy]

the recurring emphasis that education policy tends to place on test scores. This rigidity, argues Nekita Lamour, a Haitian-American and tenured educator, disincentivises black and Hispanic educators from participating in the system

I think she's saying that they're not smart enough to be teachers, but I'm not sure. Anyway, she sounds like an awful racist!

[DugwayDuke]

“I think she’s saying that they’re not smart enough to be teachers, but I’m not sure.”

This was not an assessment of the number of black teachers in education but an assessment of the number of black teachers in nine urban environments. Evidently, these black teachers are smart enough to know they don’t want to teach in urban areas.

[struggle]

I’ll tell you why, as a white teacher that left Jackson, Mississippi’s public schools.

The students are bad, but the administration and district trying to micromanage everything you do from their cushy offices are worse.

[A_Former_Democrat]

It’s always an excuse, isn’t it?

Maybe it’s because these places have been turned into hellholes by the constituent voters, “students” corrupt pols and “administrators” and “educators” et al. White teachers don’t want to risk their lives or reputations on these liberal failures, so they GTHO.

Everyone wants out from those disasters, much of it their own making They eff up one place, then want to move to eff up the next place