Minneapolis teachers union agreement stipulates White teachers be laid off first, regardless of seniority
An agreement between the Minneapolis Teachers Union and the school district states that White teachers will be laid off before teachers of color, regardless of their seniority.
Racist and discrimination.
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.”
So instead of firing the worst teacher, they will fire one who is not a PoC.
The agreement further goes on to say that when reinstating teachers, “the District shall prioritize the recall of a teacher who is a member of a population underrepresented among licensed teachers in the district.”
This agreement needs to be sent to the courts and ruled racists and torn up.
Edward Barlow, a band teacher and member of the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers executive board told the Star Tribune that the agreement can be a “national model” for finding ways to retain teachers of color.
Yay, so it does not matter how poor a teacher you are, so long as their is someone NOT a PoC who could/will be fired before you, you can do jack-shit in the classroom. Instead of educating the students, getting them to learn, think for themselves, and teach them how to be a success in society, and keeping the good educators (regard of the pigment of their skin), it is more important that instead of educating the students:
“Students need educators who look like them and who they can relate to,” the document says.
Instead of have student work in a multi-ethnic world/workforce, you are saying everyone can only function if they are divided into tribes. I can’t learn/work if I don’t have X-Y-Z as my teacher/boss/etc.
What racist FUCK!
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