The city of Minneapolis is reportedly engaged in a new scheme to try and fire its White Teachers before other groups in the name of fighting racism.
As The Chalkboard Review reports:
A new contract between Minneapolis Public Schools and the local teachers union mandates that white teachers must be fired first when any kind of staff downsizing is initiated.
“Starting with the Spring 2023 Budget Tie-Out Cycle, if excessing a teacher who is a member of a population underrepresented among licensed teachers in the site, the District shall excess the next least senior teacher, who is not a member of an underrepresented population,” the agreement, which was originally obtained by Alpha News, says. Minority teachers “may be exempted from district-wide layoff[s] outside seniority order,” and will also be given priority during reinstatement.
In addition, teachers at 15 “racially isolated schools…with the greatest concentration of poverty” will also be protected from layoffs.
“Past discrimination by the District disproportionately impacted the hiring of underrepresented teachers in the District, as compared to the relevant labor market and the community, and resulted in a lack of diversity of teachers,” the agreement adds. The agreement is meant to rectify past instances of discrimination through more and different discrimination.
Critics of the new rule have declared that it is simply unconstitutional and, is itself, highly discriminatory.
Apply nationwide Hooray & bust up teachers Unions too
Talk about being racist!!! This can not be allowed anywhere, or any time.
I sure as hell hope the white teachers sue. This is the very definition of discrimination. 2 wrongs don’t make a right. Plus it should be bases on merit not skin tone.
Agree 100% for this is “pure racist”!!!!!
A city could mandate that black teachers be fired first and cite this.
This sounds like an excellent chance for someone to get rich from a lawsuit for having their civil rights violated.
SCOTUS would fast-track this case.
So tell me which party is the racist party. why of course the party of Jim Crow, The Demonrats.
Isn’t hiring or firing someone based on race the definition of racism?
Isn’t the union supposed to represent ALL of its members?
Not if the union supports DemoCommie candidates.
Fight racism by being supe-racist.
That’s Liberal Logic.
Apparently, Liberal & Leftist Minneapolis schools are extremely Racist and Discriminative!
Instead of Ranking the Teachers on Merit, Competence and their Performance and laying off the least productive and effective teachers first!
How absurd and illogical, not to mention unfair!
We need to rid ourselves of Progressive Politicians, Bureaucrats, corrupt and incompetent Teacher’s Unions and Government Employee’s Unions that protect & encourage incompetence and Indoctrination of phony CRT, BLM, Gender Identity and failed Socialist / Communist Principles of the Progressive & WOKE movement.
This will continue the downfall of our educational system in this country. It started with Carter and the cabinet position for education. Won’t be long before we become a third-rate country. The future doesn’t look good.
Minn. A holes!
The true face of liberal/socialist Democrats
The term “under-represented” means what ? By population, or positive contributions to the tax pool that supports those schools ?
Sue them
Quality and length of service be damned. Skin color is all that matters. Who’s next, surgeons?
Seems like MLK had something to say about that.
Minneapolis: land of gnomes and wokies… soon to become extinct!
Sounds Racist to me.
what if the teacher was assigned whiteness at birth but now identifies as their true black self?
Ummmm. If those White teachers were Leftist, woke idiots- then they got what they deserved.
two wrongs make a right? business as usual?