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"You think about the discrimination that we've faced in this country back in the fifties and sixties. It was wrong then. It's wrong now," former Republican Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Kendall Qualls told "Fox & Friends."
Qualls reacted to an agreement between the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers union and the school district stating that White teachers will be laid off before teachers of color, regardless of their seniority.
The agreement, which was reached to end a two-week teacher strike last spring, says that starting this school year, "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."
Not sure exactly what relevance this actually has. If there's actually a surplus of teachers in Minnesota, it's about the only place there should be. At any rate, it's stupid to go off seniority as well. Excess the least competent, not the least senior. And really it's just white women as men are underrepresented in teaching.
Not sure exactly what relevance this actually has. If there's actually a surplus of teachers in Minnesota, it's about the only place there should be. At any rate, it's stupid to go off seniority as well. Excess the least competent, not the least senior. And really it's just white women as men are underrepresented in teaching.
Not sure exactly what relevance this actually has. If there's actually a surplus of teachers in Minnesota, it's about the only place there should be. At any rate, it's stupid to go off seniority as well. Excess the least competent, not the least senior. And really it's just white women as men are underrepresented in teaching.
Actually what's interesting is that if the system was a true meritocracy, then seniority might actually mean something. The true problem isn't the criteria being utilized, the true problem is that the system has created an environment by which there is no merit based criteria to utilize.
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