New York To Scrap Literacy Test For Teachers In The Name Of Diversity

dailycaller.com ^ | 3/12/17 | Peter Hasson/ap

[WENDLE]

Ed ZACKERY!!

[Calamari]

All were on the Dean’s list.

[PapaBear3625]

“The state’s Board of Regents is expected to ditch the Academic Literacy Skills Test in part because black and Hispanic teaching candidates struggled to pass the exam, according to the AP.”

Education majors are generally people who could not pass any higher-paying major. Affirmative action guarantees that any minority who is at all literate will be guided into Law or such, leaving Education with the bottom of the minority barrel.

[MayflowerMadam]

Very sad. I graduated from a NY State school in 1966 and the state standards were very high then. From what I’ve heard, it was about 10 years later that major dumbing-down made inroads there.

[windsorknot]

We don’t need no edukashion.

[Nuc 1.1]

Know what you mean. I have worked with blacks and hispanics that are among the sharpest people I have ever met. The Regents are doing folks a great disservice. They reinforce a negative stereotype by insisting on placing people in positions they are not ready for. So sad because it will hurt those people in the long run. Plus the problems it causes the kids. What a mess New York has become.

[ABN 505]

My Daughter attended a SUNY College in upstate N.Y. and she told me that the black girls would try to look at her paper when exam time came around. One of them had the temerity to ask her to move her arm because she could not see the answer.