Equity Policies and Hiring Mandates Ignore the Education System is Not Preparing Kids (racism, companies)

[michiganmoon]

Equity policies pushing hiring mandates miss the fact that black students on average are not graduating high school with the necessary skills.

Those companies aren't refusing to hire black people, there are just less academically qualified black people.

It is an education problem, not a racism problem.


For example, the average black 12th grader has the same reading level as the average white 8th grader.


Even if you adjust for poverty there is a big academic gap between the races with reading, writing, and math - with Asians on top.

There are high schools where less than a quarter of the kids are academically proficient.


It isn't funding, black majority schools tend to get more funding than majority white schools.



To build equity in jobs, we must fix the educational system to lift up kids, not push hiring mandates. We must find more innovative ways to teach, perhaps look at summer schooling, perhaps trying to help parents help their kids academically, etc. That is how you fix the gap.

[Feltdesigner]

Another thread about Black people.

Why is this place so obsessed with us?

[michiganmoon]

Originally Posted by Feltdesigner

Another thread about Black people.

Why is this place so obsessed with us?

This thread is about equity/mandate policies pushed by leftists - including within my place of business - while ignoring that schools are not preparing people academically.

If the leftists weren't pushing equity mandates that ignored education, this thread wouldn't exist.



It is a common leftist tactic to push systemically racist policies and then pretend it is outrageous and racist to raise any questions.