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As we’ve all been lectured lately, a great failing of American public schools is that not enough Students of Color go to white-majority schools. This is known as Segregation. We need to bus white students all over the place so that Students of Color won’t be exposed to the sheer hell of going to a school that is majority Student of Color.
The Washington Post follows up on the crisis of Not Enough White Students with a big article about the crisis of Too Many White Teachers. We must rescue Students of Color from the sheer hell of going to a school that is minority Teacher of Color.
America’s schools are more diverse than ever. But the teachers are still mostly white.
By Laura Meckler and Kate Rabinowitz Dec. 27, 2019
… Nationally, a Washington Post analysis of school district data from 46 states and the District of Columbia finds that only one-tenth of 1 percent of Latino students attend a school system where the portion of Latino teachers equals or exceeds the percentage of Latino students.
It’s only marginally better for black students: 7 percent were enrolled in a district where the share of black teachers matches or exceeds that for students. Among Asian students, it was 4.5 percent.
So that’s what account for the low test scores of Asian students!
Meanwhile, 99.7 percent of white students attended a district where the faculty was as white as the student body, The Post found.
For example, perhaps the biggest school district that has almost solved the Diversity-Inclusion-Equity crisis is Laredo on the Rio Grande river in Teas. The district is 99% Hispanic students and 97% Hispanic teachers. Granted, Laredo 6th graders score 1.4 grade levels below the national average, but that’s not the point, the point is that the Laredo school district has almost achieved Diversity Inclusion Equity among its paid teachers.
Over time, the ranks of teachers of color have grown. In 1988, 87 percent of public school teachers were white. By 2016, 80 percent were, according to federal data.
Nonetheless, the racial gap between teachers and students has widened as more young people of color have enrolled each year. In 1994, two-thirds of public school students were white; by 2016, fewer than half were. …
At every step on the road from high school student to classroom teacher, people of color fall away.
They are less likely to go to college, less likely to enroll in teacher preparation programs, less likely to graduate and less likely to be certified as teachers, the Education Department found in a 2016 report. …
“Representation absolutely matters and it matters for … almost every educational outcome you can think of,” said Seth Gershenson, a public policy professor at American University. …
A classmate, Sebastien Jean, 17, who is black and Hispanic, remembers that his elementary school teachers were all white, so he started acting what felt like white, absorbing what he called the “Caucasianness of it.”
“I sort of lost my flavor,” he said.
That created tension with his mother. “I would go home and start talking about the weather and gas prices and my mom would be like, ‘Where did you get that from?’ ” …
Also, Teachers of Color are more likely to quit because they are oppressed by being forced to teach more Students of Color:
Creating a diverse teaching corps is not just about hiring. It’s about retention. Black and Hispanic teachers are less likely to remain in the profession than their white peers.
In 2012-2013, 85 percent of white teachers were in the same school as the year before. For black teachers, it was 78 percent and for Hispanic teachers, 79 percent, federal data show.
That’s partly because black and Hispanic teachers are more likely to work in urban schools, where students have higher needs and where burnout is high for everyone, experts say. …
And sometimes, those teachers lose jobs they would like to keep. In recent years, there was a push to close low-performing schools, where black and Hispanic teachers are more likely to teach. …
On the sprawling, 46-acre campus of San Gabriel High School, part of the Alhambra district, the effort to recruit Latino teachers feels urgent. Latino students, who make up about 34 percent of the student body, chronically lag behind Asian students, who make up most of the rest.
That’s puzzling. Are there any other high schools in America where this gap is found?
Well Steve, Chicago is all over this critical issue:
https://blockclubchicago.org/2019/12/27/chicagos-teaching-corps-is-becoming-whiter-how-the-district-hopes-to-entice-and-keep-more-teachers-of-color/
“Retaining teachers of color is vital for a district where half the teachers are white and 89 percent of the students they teach are not. Since 2011, black teachers have left the district at higher rates than have teachers of other races. As a result, the city has lost a quarter of its black teaching force over a six-year period. At the same time, more than nine in 10 white teachers remained in the district, and the number of Latino teachers grew, according to a Chalkbeat analysis of district data.”
Why?
Because good, competent black professionals are in high demand in every profession, including teaching!
It makes perfect sense that good black teachers, especially those at the beginnings of their career, would choose to work in districts OTHER than Chicago Public Schools, a district where the new hires are placed in "Opportunity Schools" . . .
https://cps.edu/teach/pages/opportunity.aspx
Well Steve, Chicago is all over this vital issue:
https://blockclubchicago.org/2019/12/27/chicagos-teaching-corps-is-becoming-whiter-how-the-district-hopes-to-entice-and-keep-more-teachers-of-color/
“But ongoing challenges facing Chicago schools also pose hurdles to recruiting staff. Schools like King can be a tough sell to prospective teachers, whose evaluations depend in part on how well their students perform, said Jasmine Thurmond, the principal at King.”
“I would go home and start talking about the weather and gas prices and my mom would be like, ‘Where did you get that from?’ ” …
Only people with Caucasianness talk about the weather? What would Ramzan say? Or Hadji Murad?
What would Sebastien’s mom prefer he talk about? The jokes write themselves.
Or Liam Dutton?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fHxO0UdpoxM
You know, like someone from the International Red Cross visits a Nazi labor camp with "happy laborers" and suddenly a guy starts singing loudly about the joys of the sugar cane plantation?Ah no, sorry. The writers really mean it.Replies: @WowJustWow
I suppose the issue is not that the weather or gas prices are black/white issues, but that the child is coming home talking about things that normally concern adults, not children.
I remember in 1956 when I was 5 years old, my father had coupons for gas rationing and he explained that it was because of the "Suez crisis" when the Egyptians had seized the Suez canal and closed it. But other than that I don't think I ever gave a thought to gas prices until I was old enough to drive.
Similarly my only thoughts about the weather concerned whether it would affect sports that I took part in such as soccer and cricket. Otherwise it was cold in winter and more sunny in summer, and that was it. Just one exception. I remember when I heard about the assassination of Kennedy in November 1963, when I was 12, it was an unusually warm, wild, windy night in northwestern England, so the trees were shaking, and I wondered whether the wind gods were angry about the Kennedy hit.
A few months earlier Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space, but I don't remember hearing anything about that. I was probably playing cricket.Replies: @Jack D
Reminds me of a book called the “Guide to Politicially Correct Speech” or something like that from the early 90s, where “a person with difficult-to-meet needs” was the circumlocution to be used for a serial killer.
All.if this handwringing is just a beard for the powers that be recognizing they have an unsolvable problem they cannot fix and for political reasons cannot properly assign responsibility.
Did Sebastien Jean also start showing up on time?
Too bad the rate of demographic decay is not as slow.
>A classmate, Sebastien Jean, 17, who is black and Hispanic, remembers that his elementary school teachers were all white, so he started acting what felt like white, absorbing what he called the “Caucasianness of it.”
“I sort of lost my flavor,” he said.
That created tension with his mother. “I would go home and start talking about the weather and gas prices and my mom would be like, ‘Where did you get that from?’ ” … <
Laura Meckler and Kate Rabinowitz writing about their imaginary friend.
OT: Sometimes the enemy gets its timing off.
Netflix has a new series out, Messiah.
When I went to look at IMDB reviews for it, there were only two reviews on the site. The reviews were 10/10 and 9/10, and both spent precious little time on the movie, instead railing at the ignorant religious people downvoting the series.
Pray tell, paid activists, how do you know why people are downvoting the series when there are no reviews (negative or otherwise) saying anything about the religious content?
Checking again, it’s up to 10 reviews now. 4 of the 6 high rated reviews (8 or higher) rail against religious people downvoting it … and none of the low-rated reviews single out offensive content as a reason for downvoting it, though a couple do mention that the writers didn’t really research the religions in question very well.
A classmate, Sebastien Jean, 17, who is black and Hispanic, remembers that his elementary school teachers were all white, so he started acting what felt like white, absorbing what he called the “Caucasianness of it.”
“I sort of lost my flavor,” he said.
It’s called assimilation into the dominant culture and for a brief, shining moment, was considered a good thing.
I thought “diversity was our strength.” But now we learn — from the WaPo no less — that people actually learn better when taught by teachers of the same race.
Maybe that’s why the homogeneous Japanese and South Korean school systems kick ass every year on international scores.
I think the WaPo is getting its Party Lines crossed. Have we always been at war with Eastasia, or not?
The establishment censors uncensorable 4chan by flooding it with rule-violating illegitimate content and brainless faceberg type babble (as well as defamatory sock puppetry). If they succeed, the five or six legitimate stories a day, which are posted on the chans to evade lugenpresse memory holing, will be “slid” off the board and not archived. I just saw one about a black university professor exposed as a fraud after having published five papers with bad data, but could not save it in time (and, unlike illegal calls to violence, rule-violating survey OPs, and rule-violating chatter about celebrities, it wasn’t archived). Is this ringing a bell for anyone? Bad prof, bad data, five papers?
Everyone knows that “teachers of Color” (as we all know, white is not really a color) prefer teaching white kids.
Even one White person means we aren’t diverse enough.
If you wait for these clowns to “wake up” and stop persecuting White people, including White children, you wait in vain. They get too much sadistic pleasure from hurting Whites.
That’s partly because black and Hispanic teachers are more likely to work in urban schools, where students have higher needs and where burnout is high for everyone
What are those “higher needs” that the students have in urban schools? Are they like the higher order needs that Maslow wrote about, self-esteem and self-actualization? Perhaps in their own way they are.
The need to shout things out.
The need to speak rudely to the teacher.
The need to look at their phones all the time.
The need not to do their homework or hand in papers.
The need to get out of their seats and scuffle with each other.
The need to ignore the teacher’s efforts to enforce order.
The need to react violently when frustrated or defied.
Like learning the alphabet and how to count past 1.
We need MORE Latinos immigrating to America so there is a bigger pool from which to select Latino teachers! Oh,wait…
What was 4.5%? Black teachers? Asian teachers? ¿Teachers latinos? Shame on the writer, the proofreader, and the editor.
And the rest are doing time for, well, you know what…
But in today's "politically correct" climate it is a "whole 'nother story".
Maybe if the teacher was a male homosexual, he might get away with "boinking" a male student.
Just saying...
Did they bong the black ones though?
Every. Single. Time.
Articles like this can only be written by people who can’t comprehend basic statistics.
The last numbers I saw gave the total white population as about 61%. But do to immigration and differential fertility rates, among public school students, the white population is 48%. If we use that 48% as a proxy for everyone under 18, and we assume that group to represent 20% of the total population, we find that the over 18 population is about 65% white. Teachers necessarily come from the over 18 population. More realistically, since a college degree is required, they come from the over 22 population, which would skew the ratio even farther. But ignoring that, we’re left with a 35% nonwhite adult population, to teach nonwhite children totaling 52%. To hit the “proper” ratio, we’d need nonwhites to be overrepresented among teachers by about 50%.
But it gets worse. That 4% difference between over 18 whites and total whites needs to be made up in EVERY profession, according to modern SJW dictates. EVERY profession needs 4% nonwhite overrepresentation, because that age differential is never, ever, addressed. So, even if we assume total equality in college graduation rates, every college requiring field is competing to hire 104 out of every 100 degreed nonwhites. Since most of those fields pay better than teaching, you’d expect teaching to be relatively underrepresented, instead of 50% overrepresented.
All that assumes no racial differences except for population statistics. The real numbers are much worse.
To be fair, no one cares if there are enough black garbage men, or Maori ditch diggers. SJWs only really care about equality in fields that require college degrees. Fields like teaching. So that does leave us a way to make the ratios work, according to SJW decree. All we have to do is require whites to take menial jobs at greatly disproportionate rates, regardless of education. To achieve utopia, all you PhDs are going to have to start flipping hamburgers. Remember, it’s for the children. Not your children, of course. Helping your own children would be racist.
Just write "Journalists". Save all that wordiness.
"Articles like this can only be written by ... journalists".
See? Easy.
The future is going to be lit, and it will be here very soon.Replies: @Mr McKenna
It's not an insoluble problem though: every time a Latinx child is born or imported to this country, a white adult must be stripped of citizenship and exiled. Simple!
Only people with Caucasianness talk about the weather? What would Ramzan say? Or Hadji Murad?
What would Sebastien's mom prefer he talk about? The jokes write themselves.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @SFG, @El Dato, @Jonathan Mason
The Caucasity of hope?
Or Al Roker?
Or Liam Dutton?
https://i.imgur.com/SMffJkt.jpgReplies: @anarchyst, @anonymous, @JimDandy, @The Wild Geese Howard, @El Dato, @Ron Mexico, @Prester John
In the “good old days” a male student who was fortunate enough to get “boinked” by one of his female teachers would have been considered “lucky”.
But in today’s “politically correct” climate it is a “whole ‘nother story”.
Maybe if the teacher was a male homosexual, he might get away with “boinking” a male student.
Just saying…
The solution to an overrepresentation of white teachers is to replace them with Filipinos. Filipinos are brown and have Spanish last names. If they can pass a nursing exam, they can pass public school teacher certification. Problem solved. People of color doin’ for themselves (with white property taxes).
Considering “Sebastian Jean” looks as Haitian as tout moun sòti, you can see how being labeled “Hispanic” would leave him feeling that way.
Perhaps the reporter meant Hispaniolic.
(I speak a little conversational Haitian Kreyol, but have never met any white Americans who do other than those who live in Haiti.)
Haitian people have very little interest in current affairs, and what they do learn is usually from 'influencers' on Facebook, and is often not factual.Replies: @Stan Adams
https://i.imgur.com/SMffJkt.jpgReplies: @anarchyst, @anonymous, @JimDandy, @The Wild Geese Howard, @El Dato, @Ron Mexico, @Prester John
I’ll take number 15, Caesar. Number 2 looks like fun, but only for a little while.
#2 ... what's with the duckface?
The comment ratio is is more like 1:25 against the tone of the article. Pretty amazing that the powers to be just keep chugging along, regardless of what their own readers think.
Bwah hah hah!
This is particularly funny because as America becomes more segregated through mass migration, the role of teachers in an assimilation process becomes more vital. The more ‘core’ the background of the teacher the better.
The teachers may be white, but ALL the principals are black.
Am I the only one who has noticed that all you seem to have to do to be a principal in America is hold a masters in ‘education’ and be black.
It’s weird.
Does repesentation matter for male students? It’s almost as if you followed all of this to it’s logical conclusion we would find ourselves segregating schools by race and sex.
“Higher needs” means kids with garbage parents and home life. Somewhere along the way, it was decided teachers need to be social workers and fulfill some of the duties normally considered parenting.
All.if this handwringing is just a beard for the powers that be recognizing they have an unsolvable problem they cannot fix and for political reasons cannot properly assign responsibility.
The last numbers I saw gave the total white population as about 61%. But do to immigration and differential fertility rates, among public school students, the white population is 48%. If we use that 48% as a proxy for everyone under 18, and we assume that group to represent 20% of the total population, we find that the over 18 population is about 65% white. Teachers necessarily come from the over 18 population. More realistically, since a college degree is required, they come from the over 22 population, which would skew the ratio even farther. But ignoring that, we're left with a 35% nonwhite adult population, to teach nonwhite children totaling 52%. To hit the "proper" ratio, we'd need nonwhites to be overrepresented among teachers by about 50%.
But it gets worse. That 4% difference between over 18 whites and total whites needs to be made up in EVERY profession, according to modern SJW dictates. EVERY profession needs 4% nonwhite overrepresentation, because that age differential is never, ever, addressed. So, even if we assume total equality in college graduation rates, every college requiring field is competing to hire 104 out of every 100 degreed nonwhites. Since most of those fields pay better than teaching, you'd expect teaching to be relatively underrepresented, instead of 50% overrepresented.
All that assumes no racial differences except for population statistics. The real numbers are much worse.
To be fair, no one cares if there are enough black garbage men, or Maori ditch diggers. SJWs only really care about equality in fields that require college degrees. Fields like teaching. So that does leave us a way to make the ratios work, according to SJW decree. All we have to do is require whites to take menial jobs at greatly disproportionate rates, regardless of education. To achieve utopia, all you PhDs are going to have to start flipping hamburgers. Remember, it's for the children. Not your children, of course. Helping your own children would be racist.Replies: @anon, @res, @The Anti-Gnostic, @ThreeCranes, @WowJustWow
Articles like this can only be written by people who can’t comprehend basic statistics.
Just write “Journalists”. Save all that wordiness.
“Articles like this can only be written by … journalists”.
See? Easy.
“Laura Meckler and Kate Rabinowitz”
nuf said!
1990s education reform laws to get better teachers had the unintended consequence of cutting back on affirmative action in teacher hiring.
which only begs the question: why are they low-performing and who is responsible? Can’t hold the students responsible, they are victims. Can’t hold the teachers responsible, because… NEVERMIND.
The last numbers I saw gave the total white population as about 61%. But do to immigration and differential fertility rates, among public school students, the white population is 48%. If we use that 48% as a proxy for everyone under 18, and we assume that group to represent 20% of the total population, we find that the over 18 population is about 65% white. Teachers necessarily come from the over 18 population. More realistically, since a college degree is required, they come from the over 22 population, which would skew the ratio even farther. But ignoring that, we're left with a 35% nonwhite adult population, to teach nonwhite children totaling 52%. To hit the "proper" ratio, we'd need nonwhites to be overrepresented among teachers by about 50%.
But it gets worse. That 4% difference between over 18 whites and total whites needs to be made up in EVERY profession, according to modern SJW dictates. EVERY profession needs 4% nonwhite overrepresentation, because that age differential is never, ever, addressed. So, even if we assume total equality in college graduation rates, every college requiring field is competing to hire 104 out of every 100 degreed nonwhites. Since most of those fields pay better than teaching, you'd expect teaching to be relatively underrepresented, instead of 50% overrepresented.
All that assumes no racial differences except for population statistics. The real numbers are much worse.
To be fair, no one cares if there are enough black garbage men, or Maori ditch diggers. SJWs only really care about equality in fields that require college degrees. Fields like teaching. So that does leave us a way to make the ratios work, according to SJW decree. All we have to do is require whites to take menial jobs at greatly disproportionate rates, regardless of education. To achieve utopia, all you PhDs are going to have to start flipping hamburgers. Remember, it's for the children. Not your children, of course. Helping your own children would be racist.Replies: @anon, @res, @The Anti-Gnostic, @ThreeCranes, @WowJustWow
Here is some more data: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/07/30/most-common-age-among-us-racial-ethnic-groups/
I wonder if the people who wrote the article in Steve’s post realize they chose what is essentially an unattainable metric.
(which is what i assume you're saying, but I'm being more explicit about it)
What you really need is an attempt to revitalize rural America. Affordable family formation and all that.Replies: @bomag, @Desiderius
That reminds me of the Usenet disruption of the old days. Hostiles would shut down newsgroups they didn’t like by flooding them with spam posts. This became epidemic in the early 2000s and killed Usenet as a chat forum. (It’s still widely used as a non-political file-sharing service.)
This is just not true, and it’s been researched to death. Black do not do better on standardized tests based on the race of their teachers.
To a certain extent they may stay in school longer or apply to colleges at a higher rate. Maybe that’s good, but as the article says, blacks drop out more than whites, so maybe having a black cheerleader egging then on to levels they are not qualified for is not a good thing.
There is a boomerang effect where teacher racial representation alternates with teacher qualifications. New York state now is in the midst of increasing teacher certification requirements. Black and Hispanic teacher numbers will drop, at which point the new requirements will be dropped and things will start all over again, “Why do blacks get bad teachers?”
The irony is, teacher quality over a certain minimum doesn’t make a difference. So bring on the black teachers! But keep and increase the AP classes.
well, the metric is unattainable (and probably even undesirable) for various reasons, but that graph showed that the “test” is also invidious in inputting racism when even a totally random distribution of available teachers or even available adults would yield a “positive for racism” result because there are a heck of a lot more minority kids than there are minority adults. (even before looking at college grads)
(which is what i assume you’re saying, but I’m being more explicit about it)
Number 12!
Only people with Caucasianness talk about the weather? What would Ramzan say? Or Hadji Murad?
What would Sebastien's mom prefer he talk about? The jokes write themselves.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @SFG, @El Dato, @Jonathan Mason
Silly as they make it sound, it’s really bad how assimilation’s become a dirty word.
Their examples are stupid because they made them up (they were taught that truth is a means not an end) and they were hired on the basis of being bad at real things, but they're talking about ethnic/class subcultures not the unifying traditions/mores/principles/history into which we and our ancestors were all assimilated. Students are still being assimilated as ruthlessly as ever, but depending where you go what they're being assimilated into has gone far afield from that unity.Replies: @Jack D
https://i.imgur.com/SMffJkt.jpgReplies: @anarchyst, @anonymous, @JimDandy, @The Wild Geese Howard, @El Dato, @Ron Mexico, @Prester John
If I was in charge, I’d let each of them off with a good spanking. I guess I’ve just got a big heart.
...never mind.
Do Mesdames Meckler and Rabinowitz also feel that the percentage of Jewesses teaching is too high?
I don't have the impression that elementary school teacher is a particularly popular occupational choice for Jewish women any more. Maybe at one time when women couldn't get into the corporate world it was, but now there are better options available.
In general, I think the "too many whites" problem is going to cure itself when the old white Boomer teachers retire. Modern ed schools are just full of minorities.Replies: @JimDandy, @Bill Jones
https://i.imgur.com/SMffJkt.jpgReplies: @anarchyst, @anonymous, @JimDandy, @The Wild Geese Howard, @El Dato, @Ron Mexico, @Prester John
Dear Penthouse Forum….
Two words: Serdar Argic.
Here’s a bunch of white teachers talking about their problems teaching “diverse” students…
Of course they’re careful not to put it in those terms.
The one on the right looks like something Derbyshire would shack up with.
Thinking that teaching public school in the hood makes the world a better place: that’s so white!
Shouldn’t Seth resign from his tenured teaching position to allow a professor of color to represent?
I remember that guy. Tried to convince people that the Armenians had committed genocide against the Turks, I think.
It should.
Only people with Caucasianness talk about the weather? What would Ramzan say? Or Hadji Murad?
What would Sebastien's mom prefer he talk about? The jokes write themselves.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @SFG, @El Dato, @Jonathan Mason
That paragraph is so surreal that one suspects it is a cry for help by the WaPo article writers.
You know, like someone from the International Red Cross visits a Nazi labor camp with “happy laborers” and suddenly a guy starts singing loudly about the joys of the sugar cane plantation?
Ah no, sorry. The writers really mean it.
If all white Americans ‘magically’ vaporized into a puff of smoke tomorrow – just as the WaPo wants, in fact, – then, just what would the WaPo do to generate stories?
https://i.imgur.com/SMffJkt.jpgReplies: @anarchyst, @anonymous, @JimDandy, @The Wild Geese Howard, @El Dato, @Ron Mexico, @Prester John
In oversexed world, things happen and the law is an ass.
Did they bong the black ones though?
It’s almost as if non-Asian-non-Whites (“NANW” – you heard it here first) are less able than Whites in teaching. Or not as interested in teaching as Whites. Or both.
There is AI now to do that.
https://youtu.be/xfr2FeTdfPA
Of course they're careful not to put it in those terms.Replies: @Redneck farmer, @ssohara, @Bill Jones
How did that get past the censors?
Precisely by avoiding the elephant in the room. It’s a multi-part series.
The last numbers I saw gave the total white population as about 61%. But do to immigration and differential fertility rates, among public school students, the white population is 48%. If we use that 48% as a proxy for everyone under 18, and we assume that group to represent 20% of the total population, we find that the over 18 population is about 65% white. Teachers necessarily come from the over 18 population. More realistically, since a college degree is required, they come from the over 22 population, which would skew the ratio even farther. But ignoring that, we're left with a 35% nonwhite adult population, to teach nonwhite children totaling 52%. To hit the "proper" ratio, we'd need nonwhites to be overrepresented among teachers by about 50%.
But it gets worse. That 4% difference between over 18 whites and total whites needs to be made up in EVERY profession, according to modern SJW dictates. EVERY profession needs 4% nonwhite overrepresentation, because that age differential is never, ever, addressed. So, even if we assume total equality in college graduation rates, every college requiring field is competing to hire 104 out of every 100 degreed nonwhites. Since most of those fields pay better than teaching, you'd expect teaching to be relatively underrepresented, instead of 50% overrepresented.
All that assumes no racial differences except for population statistics. The real numbers are much worse.
To be fair, no one cares if there are enough black garbage men, or Maori ditch diggers. SJWs only really care about equality in fields that require college degrees. Fields like teaching. So that does leave us a way to make the ratios work, according to SJW decree. All we have to do is require whites to take menial jobs at greatly disproportionate rates, regardless of education. To achieve utopia, all you PhDs are going to have to start flipping hamburgers. Remember, it's for the children. Not your children, of course. Helping your own children would be racist.Replies: @anon, @res, @The Anti-Gnostic, @ThreeCranes, @WowJustWow
The last numbers I saw gave the total white population as about 61%. But do to immigration and differential fertility rates, among public school students, the white population is 48%
The future is going to be lit, and it will be here very soon.
@SFGThe Argentines we're getting now may be few in number, but they're terminally woke.
We'll have to look elsewhere, or maybe we could just curtail this migrants thing.
1920-1965 isn’t exactly ‘brief’, though it did correspond with the ascent to American world power, and that’s not a coincidence, though we did have WW2 helping us out.
Watch it, a lot of them enjoy that…
…never mind.
Looking at that graphs, whites are still a plurality even at the lowest age groups. The battle of the cradle is still winnable. You might be able to pull off a few of the paler Hispanics, too. Any idea how to get Argentines to come here?
What you really need is an attempt to revitalize rural America. Affordable family formation and all that.
Not just rural either.
Progtardery is sublimated childlessness.
“I sort of lost my flavor,” he said.
That created tension with his mother. “I would go home and start talking about the weather and gas prices and my mom would be like, ‘Where did you get that from?’ ” … <
Laura Meckler and Kate Rabinowitz writing about their imaginary friend.Replies: @bomag
As imaginary friends go, this one covers a lot of ground for the Narrative.
https://i.imgur.com/SMffJkt.jpgReplies: @anarchyst, @anonymous, @JimDandy, @The Wild Geese Howard, @El Dato, @Ron Mexico, @Prester John
#2 isn’t taking it too seriously, is she? All are young and mostly attractive. Can’t blame the boys.
That’s terrible. Education is one of those fields that it doesn’t matter too much what you do as long as you’re not hitting the kids in the head with a hammer.
It’s the distance from Canada.
Teacher reform laws just increased the credentials required to teach and imposed more barriers to enter the teaching profession.
When I became a teacher in 1992 , I was able to teach math after passing the required mathematics exam and having 16 college credits in math. Today they require 30 credits of college math plus the completion of 4 education classes in addition to passing the Praxis math exam (which is now more difficult)
When my wife recently decided to get a job teaching math she had 27 college credits of math and computer science classes and was required to obtain 3 more college credits in order to obtain a provisional license , so she took an on-line class in Algebra to get the required 30 total credits. She had already taken Calculus , Calc II , Calc III ,linear algebra Statistics , etc.., but was short 3 credits and thus took a basic algebra class to fulfill the requirements.
But the credentialism does not increase the number of good teachers , it probably reduces the number of good teachers. While my wife took many more advanced math classes than me , and this does not result in her being a better math teacher. Since High school math does not teach Calc II or other advanced math classes it is strange to require 30 credits of College math to qualify as a high school math teacher. Certainly none of my high school math teachers had 30 credits of college math when I was a student back in the 80s. Yet they were able to teach me algebra , geometry , trig and calculus.
The best high school teachers are not found by adding credentials and by forcing teachers to take more and more classes.Replies: @nebulafox
What you really need is an attempt to revitalize rural America. Affordable family formation and all that.Replies: @bomag, @Desiderius
Yes, but there’s something rather Pyrrhic about such a thing. I’d be happy with current ratios locked in at lower numbers; stop the bleeding first.
Agree, but urban has always been wealthier than rural, and has been exacerbated by modern tech and economics. We’ve learned to sustain mega-cities, and thus an even larger rural to urban migration, all while urban living tends to sterilize the high achievers. Reminds me of the mathematical model where evolution in a changing environment can have a species selecting themselves into extinction.
Your idea has been reified.
Am I the only one who has noticed that all you seem to have to do to be a principal in America is hold a masters in 'education' and be black.
It's weird.Replies: @bomag, @Possumman
Mentioned in other threads. Administration pays more, with generally better working conditions and less technical requirements. Districts anxious to cover diversity requirements (i.e. all of them) tend to load up admin positions with such.
“I would go home and start talking about the weather and gas prices and my mom would be like, ‘Where did you get that from?’ ” …
God help us…God help us.
What are those "higher needs" that the students have in urban schools? Are they like the higher order needs that Maslow wrote about, self-esteem and self-actualization? Perhaps in their own way they are.
The need to shout things out.
The need to speak rudely to the teacher.
The need to look at their phones all the time.
The need not to do their homework or hand in papers.
The need to get out of their seats and scuffle with each other.
The need to ignore the teacher's efforts to enforce order.
The need to react violently when frustrated or defied.Replies: @Prester John
“where students have higher needs”
Like learning the alphabet and how to count past 1.
https://i.imgur.com/SMffJkt.jpgReplies: @anarchyst, @anonymous, @JimDandy, @The Wild Geese Howard, @El Dato, @Ron Mexico, @Prester John
The question is: why did they feel the need to bottom feed? I hope it isn’t because the number of straight (“cisgendered” ) males of their age is declining?
#12 is the cutest.
#2 … what’s with the duckface?
Cite needed
What you really need is an attempt to revitalize rural America. Affordable family formation and all that.Replies: @bomag, @Desiderius
Ongoing.
Not just rural either.
Progtardery is sublimated childlessness.
The last numbers I saw gave the total white population as about 61%. But do to immigration and differential fertility rates, among public school students, the white population is 48%. If we use that 48% as a proxy for everyone under 18, and we assume that group to represent 20% of the total population, we find that the over 18 population is about 65% white. Teachers necessarily come from the over 18 population. More realistically, since a college degree is required, they come from the over 22 population, which would skew the ratio even farther. But ignoring that, we're left with a 35% nonwhite adult population, to teach nonwhite children totaling 52%. To hit the "proper" ratio, we'd need nonwhites to be overrepresented among teachers by about 50%.
But it gets worse. That 4% difference between over 18 whites and total whites needs to be made up in EVERY profession, according to modern SJW dictates. EVERY profession needs 4% nonwhite overrepresentation, because that age differential is never, ever, addressed. So, even if we assume total equality in college graduation rates, every college requiring field is competing to hire 104 out of every 100 degreed nonwhites. Since most of those fields pay better than teaching, you'd expect teaching to be relatively underrepresented, instead of 50% overrepresented.
All that assumes no racial differences except for population statistics. The real numbers are much worse.
To be fair, no one cares if there are enough black garbage men, or Maori ditch diggers. SJWs only really care about equality in fields that require college degrees. Fields like teaching. So that does leave us a way to make the ratios work, according to SJW decree. All we have to do is require whites to take menial jobs at greatly disproportionate rates, regardless of education. To achieve utopia, all you PhDs are going to have to start flipping hamburgers. Remember, it's for the children. Not your children, of course. Helping your own children would be racist.Replies: @anon, @res, @The Anti-Gnostic, @ThreeCranes, @WowJustWow
Bravo.
Someone named Sebastian Jean is unfamiliar with social behavior in Western cultures?
Assimilation to talking about gas prices?
Their examples are stupid because they made them up (they were taught that truth is a means not an end) and they were hired on the basis of being bad at real things, but they’re talking about ethnic/class subcultures not the unifying traditions/mores/principles/history into which we and our ancestors were all assimilated. Students are still being assimilated as ruthlessly as ever, but depending where you go what they’re being assimilated into has gone far afield from that unity.
Only people with Caucasianness talk about the weather? What would Ramzan say? Or Hadji Murad?
What would Sebastien's mom prefer he talk about? The jokes write themselves.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @SFG, @El Dato, @Jonathan Mason
Even in elementary schools these days, the teachers are always talking about climate change and stuff. I took my 7-year-old to the zoo the other day, and she was lecturing me on natural habitats being destroyed by climate change.
I suppose the issue is not that the weather or gas prices are black/white issues, but that the child is coming home talking about things that normally concern adults, not children.
I remember in 1956 when I was 5 years old, my father had coupons for gas rationing and he explained that it was because of the “Suez crisis” when the Egyptians had seized the Suez canal and closed it. But other than that I don’t think I ever gave a thought to gas prices until I was old enough to drive.
Similarly my only thoughts about the weather concerned whether it would affect sports that I took part in such as soccer and cricket. Otherwise it was cold in winter and more sunny in summer, and that was it. Just one exception. I remember when I heard about the assassination of Kennedy in November 1963, when I was 12, it was an unusually warm, wild, windy night in northwestern England, so the trees were shaking, and I wondered whether the wind gods were angry about the Kennedy hit.
A few months earlier Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space, but I don’t remember hearing anything about that. I was probably playing cricket.
Perhaps the reporter meant Hispaniolic.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rina_Nichols/publication/285556918/figure/fig1/AS:[email protected]/Maps-showing-relative-location-of-Hispaniola-in-the-Caribbean-top-and-the-island-of.pngReplies: @Jonathan Mason
Jean is a very common surname in Haiti, so this is probably right. Spanish is taught in Haitian schools, and many Haitians travel to work in the Dominican Republic, or have family there, so if they are asked if they speak Spanish, they might answer ‘yes’ and get classified as Hispanic, since hardly anyone in the US has heard of Haitian Kreyol, which is the primary language in Haiti.
(I speak a little conversational Haitian Kreyol, but have never met any white Americans who do other than those who live in Haiti.)
Haitian people have very little interest in current affairs, and what they do learn is usually from ‘influencers’ on Facebook, and is often not factual.
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/R3AA3M/miami-beach-florida-miami-dade-metrobus-sign-bilingual-spanish-english-creole-languages-touch-door-to-open-R3AA3M.jpgReplies: @Jonathan Mason
Jewesses – are you above the age of 100? I don’t think anyone has called them “Jewesses” since 1920.
I don’t have the impression that elementary school teacher is a particularly popular occupational choice for Jewish women any more. Maybe at one time when women couldn’t get into the corporate world it was, but now there are better options available.
In general, I think the “too many whites” problem is going to cure itself when the old white Boomer teachers retire. Modern ed schools are just full of minorities.
I'm not and I do.
Including the one I dated in Sodom on Hudson back in the '80's
I suppose the issue is not that the weather or gas prices are black/white issues, but that the child is coming home talking about things that normally concern adults, not children.
I remember in 1956 when I was 5 years old, my father had coupons for gas rationing and he explained that it was because of the "Suez crisis" when the Egyptians had seized the Suez canal and closed it. But other than that I don't think I ever gave a thought to gas prices until I was old enough to drive.
Similarly my only thoughts about the weather concerned whether it would affect sports that I took part in such as soccer and cricket. Otherwise it was cold in winter and more sunny in summer, and that was it. Just one exception. I remember when I heard about the assassination of Kennedy in November 1963, when I was 12, it was an unusually warm, wild, windy night in northwestern England, so the trees were shaking, and I wondered whether the wind gods were angry about the Kennedy hit.
A few months earlier Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space, but I don't remember hearing anything about that. I was probably playing cricket.Replies: @Jack D
If you read the article, that was not the implication. It wasn’t that he was talking about “adult” stuff but that he had lost his black “flavor” and was talking about boring white people stuff instead of what black people normally talk about – rappers or basketball or something.
Their examples are stupid because they made them up (they were taught that truth is a means not an end) and they were hired on the basis of being bad at real things, but they're talking about ethnic/class subcultures not the unifying traditions/mores/principles/history into which we and our ancestors were all assimilated. Students are still being assimilated as ruthlessly as ever, but depending where you go what they're being assimilated into has gone far afield from that unity.Replies: @Jack D
One of the reasons, I think, why blacks do somewhat better in places like the Caribbean where almost everyone is black, is that there’s no point there in talking about being blackety black black and in fact it’s completely normal for them to talk about things like the weather or gas prices – they feel no impetus to differentiate themselves from the white people around them because there aren’t any.
As far as we can discern, the young high school senior quoted in the article is of Haitian descent, possibly Haitian-Dominican, and most likely the mother came from an island with very little education.
I worked briefly as a volunteer in a school for adults in the Dominican Republic who were working on something similar to high school equivalency. Even the teaching materials and textbooks in Spanish were full of elementary errors, grammatical and spelling errors in Spanish, wrong answers to simple math problems and so on which were perfectly obvious to me even as a non native speaker of Spanish. Even the local teachers were pretty much illiterate themselves, so it was truly a case of the blind leading the blind.
So the mother probably comes from one of these know-nothing cultures. It is inevitable that when the brighter children of know-nothing culture immigrants enter the school system in the US, that they will gain entry to of a world of knowledge that is closed to their parents.
They may interpret this as something to do with racial culture, but it is probably more to do with education vs ignorance. Feelgood journalism of this type hand picks quotes that sound like they back up the argument being made, but are probably out of context, just like quotes from 'Jackie' were used in the A Rape On Campus story, to bolster claims of brutal fraternity rapes in major universities.
I have worked over many years in various health care and correctional settings with a variety of African American, Caribbean native, Hispanic, and subcontinental coworkers and have had plenty of discussions about the weather and gas prices. Everyone who lives and works in a hurricane zone is interested in the weather.
Weather, for example, may affect whether schools are closed, and if schools are closed that means that employees have to make alternative arrangements for child care when they are working, or take time off work. It may sometime affect whether employees are home bound due to flooded roads and not able to make it to work.
The price of gas affects everyone's pay check and how much free spending money they have, vacation plans, decisions on what kind of car to buy, and in the long run the cost of food and consumer goods. The price of gas also depends on who is warring with whom in the Middle East from day to day.
Ignorant people are only dimly aware of all these factors, but the only people in the US to whom the price of gas really does not matter on a day to day basis are those who only use public transportation or are very, very ignorant.
Anyone, white or black, who drives a car cannot fail to notice gas prices. A few years ago when the price of gasoline had spiked to over $4 per gallon, my employer was allowing many workers to work extended days for 4 days a week, instead of 5 days a week, to save gas and prevent absenteeism.
So this kid may truly have felt that these were white topics that had no part of black culture, but probably the truth was that his mother was just ignorant about the world around her.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2019/12/27/chicagos-teaching-corps-is-becoming-whiter-how-the-district-hopes-to-entice-and-keep-more-teachers-of-color/
"Retaining teachers of color is vital for a district where half the teachers are white and 89 percent of the students they teach are not. Since 2011, black teachers have left the district at higher rates than have teachers of other races. As a result, the city has lost a quarter of its black teaching force over a six-year period. At the same time, more than nine in 10 white teachers remained in the district, and the number of Latino teachers grew, according to a Chalkbeat analysis of district data."Replies: @Paul Jolliffe
Well, this is just like anything else: if one is a good, competent black professional, then one can write one’s own ticket and work anywhere.
Why?
Because good, competent black professionals are in high demand in every profession, including teaching!
It makes perfect sense that good black teachers, especially those at the beginnings of their career, would choose to work in districts OTHER than Chicago Public Schools, a district where the new hires are placed in “Opportunity Schools” . . .
https://cps.edu/teach/pages/opportunity.aspx
I don't have the impression that elementary school teacher is a particularly popular occupational choice for Jewish women any more. Maybe at one time when women couldn't get into the corporate world it was, but now there are better options available.
In general, I think the "too many whites" problem is going to cure itself when the old white Boomer teachers retire. Modern ed schools are just full of minorities.Replies: @JimDandy, @Bill Jones
Ok, boomer. FYI, the word made a huge comeback, like handlebar mustaches and chicken raising. All the kids are saying it. It’s gotten totally out of control. What are you doing hanging around here? Tik Tok needs you.
I lived in Bermuda for several years and the constantly changing weather was always a topic of conversation, and so were gas prices and the high cost of taxis. However, this was probably because of how they affected tourism arrivals.
However, I don’t think it can be said that Haitians are not interested in gas prices. In July 2018 the government of Haiti raised the price of fuel 51% to comply with International Monetary Fund requirements and people were not too happy.
Boring because developmentally inappropriate. It’s not what the writers implicated because the writers are imbeciles, but that is probably the underlying dynamic.
https://www.treehugger.com/cars/2008-us-gas-price-year-in-review.html
I am not sure that this is a conscious decision.
As far as we can discern, the young high school senior quoted in the article is of Haitian descent, possibly Haitian-Dominican, and most likely the mother came from an island with very little education.
I worked briefly as a volunteer in a school for adults in the Dominican Republic who were working on something similar to high school equivalency. Even the teaching materials and textbooks in Spanish were full of elementary errors, grammatical and spelling errors in Spanish, wrong answers to simple math problems and so on which were perfectly obvious to me even as a non native speaker of Spanish. Even the local teachers were pretty much illiterate themselves, so it was truly a case of the blind leading the blind.
So the mother probably comes from one of these know-nothing cultures. It is inevitable that when the brighter children of know-nothing culture immigrants enter the school system in the US, that they will gain entry to of a world of knowledge that is closed to their parents.
They may interpret this as something to do with racial culture, but it is probably more to do with education vs ignorance. Feelgood journalism of this type hand picks quotes that sound like they back up the argument being made, but are probably out of context, just like quotes from ‘Jackie’ were used in the A Rape On Campus story, to bolster claims of brutal fraternity rapes in major universities.
I have worked over many years in various health care and correctional settings with a variety of African American, Caribbean native, Hispanic, and subcontinental coworkers and have had plenty of discussions about the weather and gas prices. Everyone who lives and works in a hurricane zone is interested in the weather.
Weather, for example, may affect whether schools are closed, and if schools are closed that means that employees have to make alternative arrangements for child care when they are working, or take time off work. It may sometime affect whether employees are home bound due to flooded roads and not able to make it to work.
The price of gas affects everyone’s pay check and how much free spending money they have, vacation plans, decisions on what kind of car to buy, and in the long run the cost of food and consumer goods. The price of gas also depends on who is warring with whom in the Middle East from day to day.
Ignorant people are only dimly aware of all these factors, but the only people in the US to whom the price of gas really does not matter on a day to day basis are those who only use public transportation or are very, very ignorant.
Anyone, white or black, who drives a car cannot fail to notice gas prices. A few years ago when the price of gasoline had spiked to over $4 per gallon, my employer was allowing many workers to work extended days for 4 days a week, instead of 5 days a week, to save gas and prevent absenteeism.
So this kid may truly have felt that these were white topics that had no part of black culture, but probably the truth was that his mother was just ignorant about the world around her.
Am I the only one who has noticed that all you seem to have to do to be a principal in America is hold a masters in 'education' and be black.
It's weird.Replies: @bomag, @Possumman
Generally you need to have taught for a year or two-have a briefcase, be from out of town and be black–in another year or two you will be superintendent.
Also note that the huge spike in gas prices I referenced above occurred in 2008, so probably the student quoted above was in 1st or 2nd grade in elementary school at the time, and everyone WAS talking about gas prices, working shortened weeks, and so on.
https://www.treehugger.com/cars/2008-us-gas-price-year-in-review.html
One of the funnier things I have ever heard was a books-for-the-blind’s reading service “Adult Hour”. They had this really old, patrician sounding woman reading Penthouse Forum and other erotic literature. For amusement I sent the service a copy of a midwit paperback called “Honolulu Madam”, an erotic pot boiler in reality written by a Jewish man purporting to be a half Japanese woman who became a whorehouse owner. The old woman read selections from it next week. I later met her. She turned out to be the widow of a local car dealer, very wealthy and heavily involved in her liberal but respectable church.
Assimilation is working just fine: here we see that literal cannibals from the land of vodou are able to assimilate to the stagnant American black monoculture in a single generation. “Flavor” is that remarkably restrictive set of behaviors, attitudes and interests that render blacks indiscernible across the entire country.
It deserves saying again: because of racial narcissism (encouraged by the Mecklers and Rabinowitzes of the world,) American blacks are so self-obsessed that they don’t really know that much about The Whites as a people. Your average yoga-mat Vermont shitlib grandma who’s never seen a black outside of Netflix knows more about authentic black culture than these people do about whites. Asking them to assimilate to white norms is futile. At best you’re going to end up with some kind of perverted cargo-cult interpretation of what white means; you already see that in the ghetto where every reverend is a doctor and every doctor is a reverend.
Maybe that's why the homogeneous Japanese and South Korean school systems kick ass every year on international scores.
I think the WaPo is getting its Party Lines crossed. Have we always been at war with Eastasia, or not?Replies: @Magic Dirt Resident
Good point, the level of cognitive dissonance weaved into the establishment narrative is hard to fathom. Nowhere is it more apparent than in regards to racial issues.
And the authors of the post article…Meckler, Rabinowitz.
I’d be confused if my white 17 year-old started talking about gas prices. Mom and dad pay for gas and that’s all she needs or wants to know.
If she started making small talk about the weather with the parents, I’d start looking for the pod the alien replacement came out of.
(I speak a little conversational Haitian Kreyol, but have never met any white Americans who do other than those who live in Haiti.)
Haitian people have very little interest in current affairs, and what they do learn is usually from 'influencers' on Facebook, and is often not factual.Replies: @Stan Adams
Miami must be the only city in the United States where buses and trains feature ads and signs in Creole.
The name is Sebastien, and therein lies the rub.
The fact that Bezos's name is spelled correctly in the last paragraph and this one tells you that I'm not using his device at the moment. I'm at the library, using Chrome on an HP.Replies: @Cortes
Look at who wrote the article. Connections are made at temple, I guess
True. My worst math teacher in High School had a PHD in Math and had scored a perfect SAT score. My best math teacher had a degree in sociology.
The best high school teachers are not found by adding credentials and by forcing teachers to take more and more classes.
They are lucky there are as many white teachers willing to deal with their behavior, lack of parental involvement, crime, disrespect, and violence in the classroom.
If you thought your kids were poorly educated with white teachers, wait until they are taught by affirmative action teachers of color.
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/R3AA3M/miami-beach-florida-miami-dade-metrobus-sign-bilingual-spanish-english-creole-languages-touch-door-to-open-R3AA3M.jpgReplies: @Jonathan Mason
Funny how English omits the the word “the” before green and before door and the word “it” after open.
No wonder it has to be translated to make it comprehensible.
The English version has 9 words and the other two both 11. Spanish and Kreyol both save one word by merging “openit” and “waitfor” into single words respectively.
I must say I love Kreyol and the way it changes words like French “attend” into “tann” and “pour” into “pou”. At first the written language looks weird, but when you start to understand how it works, it becomes easy.
Kate Rabinowitz
Anybody else notice that it seems to be increasingly Jewish women in the mainstream media leading this vicious hate campaigns against white Americans. Ann Coulter might have finally crossed a bridge where she gets banned from Twitter and mainstream media for “noticing” the very ugly Jewess lesbian writer for Celine Robinson on “Law and Order” .
Ann C writes:
“Today, I will review another totally believable episode, from Season 20, titled “Man Up/Man Down.” In this show, a blond, blue-eyed married American man anally rapes his teenaged sons when he takes them … hunting. Yes, hunting. The only thing missing was the MAGA hat.”
Then there was that worst ever hate White guy UVA rape hoax article written by that Jewess who works for Rollingstone Magazine.
Why is this the case?
I think a lot of it has to do with Jewish women knowing that men don’t find them attractive. Virtually every single successful Jewish writer, agent, producer and director in Hollywood has an attractive Nordic gentile/Shiksa girlfriend, wife. It’s just reality that successful Jewish men like Billy Joel would prefer to mate with a Christie Brinkley than with a Bella Abzug or Ruth Bader Ginzberg.
Jewish women get passed over and boy does that make them angry and resentful.
The most sought after women for dating are East Asian women, the least sought after men East Asian men. Which is causing problems in these communities as they assimilate to the dominant culture. The least sought after women are black women as many white women prefer black men. This, too, has become problematic in the Af-Am community.
Ann can be quite caustic while being funny. Her comment came from her exasperation with the p.c. torturing of Law and Order episode plots. Did she say "Jewess?" Shame on Ann. History's last Jewess was Queen Esther.
I recommend you keep a barf bag close at hand during this effort.
A public school district *is* segregation.
Imagine the outcry that would follow news that a safe, well maintained, program rich, public park district (rare, I know), situated within a region that was 95% White, was off-limits to (minority!) kids who lived outside the district.
I don’t know. Blacks might lag behind the other races in the US, but they still do considerably better than the Haitians. There are no whites in Haiti: they genocided their former masters out of existence a couple centuries ago. Important to remember that the American inner city black underclass might get all the media headlines, but that doesn’t make them a numerical majority, and that many Caribbean (those that aren’t biracial) and African immigrant kids you’ll encounter in the US tend to have black versions of the Asian tiger parents, i.e, they aren’t normative for their societies. Maybe this is moreso the case for Africans than it is for the Chinese, but the dynamic remains invariant.
(Immigration to the US has historically been, to some degree, a matter of self-selection for those who are ambitious for their progeny, and ready to gamble on a completely fresh start overseas, where they’ll assimilate to a new life. You’ll naturally encounter more future doctors and engineers with such an dynamic. This is one of those vital, good things that keeps America functional that our elites are messing with.)
I actually think most of the issues afflicting the downwardly mobile native black working and lower middle classes-which is not the same thing as the legacy underclass-are the exact same as those faced by their white counterparts. Both are native legacy Americans who have a lot of people making bad choices, but are also actively getting screwed over by our elites, political, economic, and cultural at a time where they can ill afford it. It just hit black people earlier and harder for all the obvious reasons.
Many of these people could be potential Republican voters if the Republican agenda included some of the things that they want, but the Republicans seem to be pretty thin on market research.
The best high school teachers are not found by adding credentials and by forcing teachers to take more and more classes.Replies: @nebulafox
I’ve met Nobel Prize candidates in physics who’ve struggled to teach. I’ve also seen some who are excellent teachers. All depends on the individual.
It’s a completely orthogonal skill to doing effective research.
Just noticed that it’s spelled wrong on my comment as well, even though I’m 99.4% sure I typed it in right. Which means that Bezos’s autocorrect is guilty. Bezos’s name, if not his blood, is Mexican. Put dos and doub together…
The fact that Bezos’s name is spelled correctly in the last paragraph and this one tells you that I’m not using his device at the moment. I’m at the library, using Chrome on an HP.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq481utZ8yE
Not quite true. About 5% of the population of Haiti is white, mulatto, or Lebanese which is a small number, but considering the influence of the famous 1% in the United States, it is likely that the 5% owns 75% or more of the wealth and run nearly all of the significant businesses like infrastructure construction, banking, telecommunications, shipping, export factories, vehicle dealerships, gas stations, hotels and resorts, etc.
I think this is very true. The difference is that they don’t seem to be supporting Trump to the same extent as their black counterparts. A Haitian woman who really does not know one party from the other said to me the other day. “Is Trump going to give us a health care system where we get some health care for the hundreds of dollars we pay every month?” I explained to her that he had promised something like this, but had not yet delivered. She said she would not vote for him in that case.
Many of these people could be potential Republican voters if the Republican agenda included some of the things that they want, but the Republicans seem to be pretty thin on market research.
The # of whites in Haiti, though small, is greater than zero. A small # of whites such as Lebanese merchants immigrated after they killed/expelled (alm0st) all the French.
Fair enough, and my point still stands.
The fact that Bezos's name is spelled correctly in the last paragraph and this one tells you that I'm not using his device at the moment. I'm at the library, using Chrome on an HP.Replies: @Cortes
Here’s where he whitened up for the UK charts market:
Cheer up, Sébastien Jean
Oh, what can it mean
To a daydream believer
And a welfare queen?
It’s called regulatory capture. The point is to protect teachers from competition so they can extract more gibs from tax payers.
You know, like someone from the International Red Cross visits a Nazi labor camp with "happy laborers" and suddenly a guy starts singing loudly about the joys of the sugar cane plantation?Ah no, sorry. The writers really mean it.Replies: @WowJustWow
If we don’t end this epidemic of excessively white teachers, they’ll corrupt the minds of students of color with white ideas like math and science and bibliographic citations.
The last numbers I saw gave the total white population as about 61%. But do to immigration and differential fertility rates, among public school students, the white population is 48%. If we use that 48% as a proxy for everyone under 18, and we assume that group to represent 20% of the total population, we find that the over 18 population is about 65% white. Teachers necessarily come from the over 18 population. More realistically, since a college degree is required, they come from the over 22 population, which would skew the ratio even farther. But ignoring that, we're left with a 35% nonwhite adult population, to teach nonwhite children totaling 52%. To hit the "proper" ratio, we'd need nonwhites to be overrepresented among teachers by about 50%.
But it gets worse. That 4% difference between over 18 whites and total whites needs to be made up in EVERY profession, according to modern SJW dictates. EVERY profession needs 4% nonwhite overrepresentation, because that age differential is never, ever, addressed. So, even if we assume total equality in college graduation rates, every college requiring field is competing to hire 104 out of every 100 degreed nonwhites. Since most of those fields pay better than teaching, you'd expect teaching to be relatively underrepresented, instead of 50% overrepresented.
All that assumes no racial differences except for population statistics. The real numbers are much worse.
To be fair, no one cares if there are enough black garbage men, or Maori ditch diggers. SJWs only really care about equality in fields that require college degrees. Fields like teaching. So that does leave us a way to make the ratios work, according to SJW decree. All we have to do is require whites to take menial jobs at greatly disproportionate rates, regardless of education. To achieve utopia, all you PhDs are going to have to start flipping hamburgers. Remember, it's for the children. Not your children, of course. Helping your own children would be racist.Replies: @anon, @res, @The Anti-Gnostic, @ThreeCranes, @WowJustWow
Particularly for fast-growing minority groups: “only one-tenth of 1 percent of Latino students attend a school system where the portion of Latino teachers equals or exceeds the percentage of Latino students.”
It’s not an insoluble problem though: every time a Latinx child is born or imported to this country, a white adult must be stripped of citizenship and exiled. Simple!
The future is going to be lit, and it will be here very soon.Replies: @Mr McKenna
I remember when “Lit” meant “Literature”…
The Argentines we’re getting now may be few in number, but they’re terminally woke.
We’ll have to look elsewhere, or maybe we could just curtail this migrants thing.
If that’s all it were, I could probably live with it. But I think there are waaaay too many true believers in the idea that the key to better math (or any) education is higher teaching credentials. If I suggested that some day these lunatics might require PhDs in Nuclear Physics to teach seventh grade science, it wouldn’t even sound that shocking, would it.
Anybody else notice that it seems to be increasingly Jewish women in the mainstream media leading this vicious hate campaigns against white Americans. Ann Coulter might have finally crossed a bridge where she gets banned from Twitter and mainstream media for "noticing" the very ugly Jewess lesbian writer for Celine Robinson on "Law and Order" .
Ann C writes:
"Today, I will review another totally believable episode, from Season 20, titled “Man Up/Man Down.” In this show, a blond, blue-eyed married American man anally rapes his teenaged sons when he takes them ... hunting. Yes, hunting. The only thing missing was the MAGA hat."
Then there was that worst ever hate White guy UVA rape hoax article written by that Jewess who works for Rollingstone Magazine.
Why is this the case?
I think a lot of it has to do with Jewish women knowing that men don't find them attractive. Virtually every single successful Jewish writer, agent, producer and director in Hollywood has an attractive Nordic gentile/Shiksa girlfriend, wife. It's just reality that successful Jewish men like Billy Joel would prefer to mate with a Christie Brinkley than with a Bella Abzug or Ruth Bader Ginzberg.
Jewish women get passed over and boy does that make them angry and resentful.Replies: @imbroglio, @The Wild Geese Howard
There are good looking Jewish women but many are militant feminists with a low estimation of the male gender including Jewish men. Also, the dominant conception of good looks is the WASP ideal of which most Jewish men fall short in height and looks. And a lot of Jews just plain don’t like each other for whatever reason.
The most sought after women for dating are East Asian women, the least sought after men East Asian men. Which is causing problems in these communities as they assimilate to the dominant culture. The least sought after women are black women as many white women prefer black men. This, too, has become problematic in the Af-Am community.
Ann can be quite caustic while being funny. Her comment came from her exasperation with the p.c. torturing of Law and Order episode plots. Did she say “Jewess?” Shame on Ann. History’s last Jewess was Queen Esther.
Anybody else notice that it seems to be increasingly Jewish women in the mainstream media leading this vicious hate campaigns against white Americans. Ann Coulter might have finally crossed a bridge where she gets banned from Twitter and mainstream media for "noticing" the very ugly Jewess lesbian writer for Celine Robinson on "Law and Order" .
Ann C writes:
"Today, I will review another totally believable episode, from Season 20, titled “Man Up/Man Down.” In this show, a blond, blue-eyed married American man anally rapes his teenaged sons when he takes them ... hunting. Yes, hunting. The only thing missing was the MAGA hat."
Then there was that worst ever hate White guy UVA rape hoax article written by that Jewess who works for Rollingstone Magazine.
Why is this the case?
I think a lot of it has to do with Jewish women knowing that men don't find them attractive. Virtually every single successful Jewish writer, agent, producer and director in Hollywood has an attractive Nordic gentile/Shiksa girlfriend, wife. It's just reality that successful Jewish men like Billy Joel would prefer to mate with a Christie Brinkley than with a Bella Abzug or Ruth Bader Ginzberg.
Jewish women get passed over and boy does that make them angry and resentful.Replies: @imbroglio, @The Wild Geese Howard
Well, the interested student can easily image search the five Hebraic lovelies listed above.
I recommend you keep a barf bag close at hand during this effort.
https://youtu.be/xfr2FeTdfPA
Of course they're careful not to put it in those terms.Replies: @Redneck farmer, @ssohara, @Bill Jones
One of the teachers is Asian. Not that it makes a difference…
The irony here is actually, that white is all colors, with none refracted, and black is the absence of color.
They are less likely to go to college, less likely to enroll in teacher preparation programs, less likely to graduate and less likely to be certified as teachers, the Education Department found in a 2016 report.
Not only do many black teachers washout due to failing teacher certification exams, It seems like a large number of black teachers get fired (or arrested) for fudging mandatory state student test results.
https://youtu.be/xfr2FeTdfPA
Of course they're careful not to put it in those terms.Replies: @Redneck farmer, @ssohara, @Bill Jones
White?
The one on the right looks like something Derbyshire would shack up with.
I don't have the impression that elementary school teacher is a particularly popular occupational choice for Jewish women any more. Maybe at one time when women couldn't get into the corporate world it was, but now there are better options available.
In general, I think the "too many whites" problem is going to cure itself when the old white Boomer teachers retire. Modern ed schools are just full of minorities.Replies: @JimDandy, @Bill Jones
” are you above the age of 100? I don’t think anyone has called them “Jewesses” since 1920.”
I’m not and I do.
Including the one I dated in Sodom on Hudson back in the ’80’s