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Ashlynn Warta on “diversity” versus competence:
NCACTE recently explained its concerns about standardised tests, stating, “Entry and licensure exams serve as barriers to placing more teachers, particularly more diverse teachers, in classrooms.” In other words, NCACTE doesn’t believe that its “diverse” teacher candidates can succeed when faced with objective measures of preparedness.
Somewhat related, the third item here:
There is a category tag – Problematic Competence – via which you can find many similar items.
Also related, Heather Mac Donald on the stupefying effects of “disparate impact” ideology:
And in other educational excellence news:
Update, via the comments, where ccscientist adds,
Well, an inability to comprehend safety instructions would seem to be a perverse qualification for a firefighter. But here we are.
As we’ve seen many times, the perversity and doublethink of “equity” devotees is hard to overstate. Theirs is a world in which inversions abound, such that, for instance, punishing gifted students for being precocious, and shutting down advanced courses, gleefully, triumphantly, all in the name of “inclusion,” is framed as granting access. By taking it away.
It’s a world in which vindictive bedlamites, such as Ms Alison Collins, disdain pupils of Chinese or Korean ancestry as “white” or white-adjacent, and therefore suspect, and who insist that a parental preference for academic rigour is “racist,” and that the way to fight for “high-quality schools” is to abandon expectations of competence.
And in which “suspending proficiency requirements” – and denouncing diligence and politeness as “white supremacy,” a wickedness to be shunned – will somehow “benefit” the children on whom these things are imposed. It’s a world in which objecting to being assaulted in class – say, being punched by students or having one’s hair set on fire – is itself framed as “white supremacist violence.”
This is “equity.” This is “social justice.”
Update 2:
Regarding the last item linked above, NashB adds,
I suppose it’s what Jordan Peterson describes as ideological possession. It would, I think, be foolish to assume that such creatures are amenable to evidence, realism, or rational argument. Or even belated feelings of shame. Clearly, these are not things that motivate them.
An example that comes to mind, one of several, is the Minnesota school superintendent Valeria Silva, a mediocrity promoted far beyond her abilities, and who, when faced with the predictable and catastrophic consequences of her own “equity” policies – including nosediving literacy scores, brain-damaged staff, and actual riots – simply doubled down and smeared complaining parents, of every hue, as obviously being racists. While injured and terrified teachers were consoled with “white privilege” training and free emergency whistles.
I very much doubt that one could reason these bedlamites out of their weird compulsions.
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The soi disant elites are much too sophisticated to take any heed of such evidently white supremacist propaganda.
The results of public policy, often deleterious, having been demonstrated numerous times, the presumption of ignorance on the part of those pushing for a repetition is no longer warranted.
Post updated.
In a world of small farms, incompetence merely causes that farmer and his family to starve. In our modern world, however, things fall apart. Due to covid and woke policies, we can see in the US a deterioration of just about everything. Supply chains screwed up so there are always big gaps on the shelves. Recent airline near-misses and several shutdowns of all air traffic on top of Southwest truly screwing the pooch (not that that is a bad thing…). I have found increasing problems of websites not working, phone systems unable to route you to option 3, bank personnel bonking up my account, and mail vanishing. For many jobs there are truly only a small % of the pop capable of doing the job.
Nosey Joe?
I saw him just the other day
Tried to steal my gal away
He offered her money
He offered her love
She said thank you sir, but please don’t shove
Your big nose in my business
Your big nose in my business
That’s Nosey Joe, the nosiest guy I know
Old Nosey finally lost his life
Messin’ with my buddy’s wife
My buddy caught him with his chick
Chopped off his nose, now he can’t stick
His big nose in my business
His big nose in my business
That’s Nosey Joe, the nosiest guy I know
The Woke/Left live in a world entirely of concepts with women being more prone to this
Sooner or later, everyone comes around to the idea of patriarchy.
A very apt expression. It is indeed as if they are possessed.
weird compulsions.
That.
Well, it seems to me that’s exactly what it is. A near-monomaniacal fixation with racialising pretty much everything and then blaming the imagined, seemingly inexhaustible pathology of “whiteness,” as if this “whiteness” were the root of all human misery and infinitely corrupting. Pick almost any end-of-year review for plenty of illustrations. And these weird compulsions are apparently unshiftable by logic or contrary evidence, or reciprocation, or basic decency.
Leftist sociologists: “Those two men like each other. They must be gay.”
This reminded me of something from the sixties and seventies: Gay activists who would point at any sign of male bonding in boys and young men and say they were gay. It made many young men uneasy about any physical expressions such as arms around shoulders.
Speaking of a mediocrity promoted far beyond
herhiszer abilities, “A perfect choice for kids who love learning and teachers who want to bring inspiring women into their curriculum.”Complete with an introduction by Chelsea Clinton, speaking of mediocrities.
As has been noted, repeatedly, and I believe by yourself as well, you cannot reason people out of a belief that they were not reasoned into in the first place. As for basic decency, therein lies the solution to the problem. Abandoning basic decency. First by language and if that does not work, by kinetic energy. They will not/do not hesitate to use such with others.
who want to bring inspiring women into their curriculum
Just another in the series of “The Best Women are Men” Trans Minstrel shows.
racialising pretty much everything and then blaming the imagined, seemingly inexhaustible pathology of “whiteness,” as if this “whiteness” were the root of all human misery and infinitely corrupting
They will never look at cultures that are entirely non-white to learn that human misery, crime, inhumanity, and violence are universal. Oh, yes, I know, they will blame it on past colonialism since they are entirely unacquainted with history (which was perfect before Euros came along).
We have reached Peak Florida Man.
This has been pointed out here before.
Have finally started Clarkson’s Farm. Interesting and enjoyable.But I suspect that some of Clarkson’s poor decisions were not innocent, but were made in order to make the show more interesting by giving us all more screw-ups to marvel at.
Remember when former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg said that anybody could learn to farm? That it didn’t take much skill?
This sources says it is a hoax. Sorry.