Hiring Minority Teachers

[Yo Yo What Up]

KFVS ran a spot last night on PBs efforts to hire more minority teachers in the district. What do you think about this?

[Happygolucky]

Huh, I don't think anything negative about it. Obviously you are having a problem with it to post a stupid thread like this. The town of PB needs to wake up and stop acting so ignorate about the fact that people of different color are not animals, they are human beings just like us. The more raciest crap I see on this PB Forum just clarifies the actual ingorance of PB. Grow up! Give me one factual reason you blieve white people are better than people of color! I know I'm no better, in fact I put my pants on one leg at a time too!

[Yo Yo What Up]

Why do they have to go to historically black colleges to find recruits? Why not traditional, more rigorous universities?

[Guest]

PB needs to hire the best teachers possible. Race, ethnicity or gender have no bearing on a teacher's qualifications or ability.

[guest]

Yo Yo What Up wrote:

Why do they have to go to historically black colleges to find recruits? Why not traditional, more rigorous universities?

And, just what makes you think that a historically black college gives people a bad education?

[well]

I really don't want some bluegum or cock roach teaching my kid from hooked on phonix because they can't speak proper English.

[teachers]

I don't see why race is important. They think kids will relate better to someone of their own race, but teachers aren't there to be your therapist and hold your hand. They're there to teach, and the best teachers should be hired based on credentials, experience, and teaching methods, not the color of their skin. Also, the majority of students are white in the Butler County school district. A 12% minority population is nothing. I moved from an area where whites were about only 40% of the school population, and still most of the teachers were white.
So I think if schools where 60% of the population is minorities can survive with mostly white teachers, I think schools with a 12% minority population should be just fine.

[Go elsewhere homeboy]

I certainly wouldn't want MY white child learning from a black man or woman. They might be fine people, but they'll still influence white children to have a curiosity in the black culture, and there's already too much of that going on.
BLACKS DO NOT listen to the same music, or go to the same churches, or enjoy the same leisure activities that we do...Why would we want them teaching any WHITE child, UNLESS they've attended predominantly WHITE schools themselves, including a WHITE college?
Just because SOME people in this country feel like it's time for us to catch up with minority hiring, it ISN'T time to teach our young WHITE kids the BLACK culture....
You see all the WHITE kids acting BLACK, with their hat on backward or sideways, and their pants about to fall down their knees, listening to BLACK rap music and talking trash like they just finished a course in Ebonics....
Places like Jeff City, Kansas City, and St.Louis are places for minority teachers.
Leave us alone down here in our PREDOMINANTLY WHITE part of the world, and stop trying to bring black culture to people who don't want it!

[guest from poplar bluff]

Oh my God, if we aren't careful they will want to drive, vote and get an education with us white people. I think they might even use our water fountains and bathrooms. What is this world coming too..................

[slave driver]

guest from poplar bluff wrote:

Oh my God, if we aren't careful they will want to drive, vote and get an education with us white people. I think they might even use our water fountains and bathrooms. What is this world coming too..........

You got that $hit right Maynard. Well, everything except the education. You can teach a monkey to copy human traits (monkey see monkey do) but to learn by using intelligence is out of the question for 'da brothers'. Integration, it's ruining the US.

[teachers]

If minority teachers were wanting jobs here, wouldn't they be applying? Maybe it isn't that the district isn't hiring minorities, maybe none are applying. Or maybe the one's applying aren't as experienced as other candidates.

I had a black guidance counselor in high school for half a year. He was the only minority guidance counselor. He lost his job after getting arrested in a public restroom at a park kids frequent getting his love on with another dude. Not saying all minorities are like that, but he was in charge of helping kids but couldn't keep his private business private.

[slave driver]

With only one in a hundred blacks graduating high school were are the minority teachers suppose to come from?

[Titan]

The job should go to the best qualified regardless of race.

[Yo Yo What Up]

slave driver wrote:

With only one in a hundred blacks graduating high school were are the minority teachers suppose to come from?

While exaggerating you make a good point. Statistically fewer blacks graduate from college than do whites---presumably the majority NOT in teacher education programs. A well educated black man or woman would be in BIG DEMAND in the education field. One could surmise that they will go where they can make the best living for their families. Perhaps Poplar Bluff should look into offering black teachers MORE than their white counterparts to come and teach at Bluff. It's all supply and demand---nothing wrong with that. Blacks have made lower wages than whites for decades. No one will be concerned if the tables are turned for a change. If you want qualified black teachers you will have to pay more.

[slave driver]

Yo Yo What Up wrote:

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Perhaps Poplar Bluff should look into offering black teachers MORE than their white counterparts to come and teach at Bluff. It's all supply and demand---nothing wrong with that. Blacks have made lower wages than whites for decades. No one will be concerned if the tables are turned for a change.

Two wrongs don't make a right. Also, they should be in no bigger demand than any qualified teacher. They have nothing to bring to the table any other teacher with their qualifications would have.

[teachers]

Yo Yo What Up wrote:

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While exaggerating you make a good point. Statistically fewer blacks graduate from college than do whites---presumably the majority NOT in teacher education programs. A well educated black man or woman would be in BIG DEMAND in the education field. One could surmise that they will go where they can make the best living for their families. Perhaps Poplar Bluff should look into offering black teachers MORE than their white counterparts to come and teach at Bluff. It's all supply and demand---nothing wrong with that. Blacks have made lower wages than whites for decades. No one will be concerned if the tables are turned for a change. If you want qualified black teachers you will have to pay more.

That goes against EEO guidelines which don't let employers discriminate based on race, gender, disability etc... If white teachers get less because they're white, they have grounds for a lawsuit. Salary should be based on credentials and experience, period. I know if I was applying for a teaching job and found out a black woman with equal credentials was making more than me simply because she popped out into the world a black person, I'd be making something about it.

[Yo Yo What Up]

teachers wrote:

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That goes against EEO guidelines which don't let employers discriminate based on race, gender, disability etc... If white teachers get less because they're white, they have grounds for a lawsuit. Salary should be based on credentials and experience, period. I know if I was applying for a teaching job and found out a black woman with equal credentials was making more than me simply because she popped out into the world a black person, I'd be making something about it.

Salary should be determined on supply and demand and MERIT

[slave driver]

Yo Yo What Up wrote:

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Salary should be determined on supply and demand and MERIT

With blacks making up approx 13 percent of the US population I would say the "supply and demand" for them to do ANYTHING is higher. Hell, you can't get them to finish school much less get a real job how can we pay them more for doing nothing? I guess you want an increase in the amount of welfare they draw compared to a white person?

Merit

[Yo Yo What Up]

I have no problem with welfare; in fact, every African American family should be paid reparations for slavery.

[guest]

Titan wrote:

The job should go to the best qualified regardless of race.

I concur. However PB Schools need to address the minority issue of role models etc. What about hiring minority social workers and counselors? It is going to be difficult to attract minority teachers to Butler County unless this is their home as this area doesn't have a lot to offer to professional Blacks. People in our area tend to be clickish and unwelcoming to newcomers no matter their color. There doesn't appear to be a very large network of Black professionals in the area which would attract young people right out of college. Most of the people who come back to this area have family here. Otherwise why would anyone want to live in a mosquito infested swamp where predjudice and redneck are synonymous with Butler County?