No More Math Testing for Future Teachers
A true indication that political correctness, or WOKE, has gone totally nuts. Your kids will NOT be getting teachers in the future that have proven they had math skills to teach them...at least not 'racialized' teachers.
I thought when they announced this Math Test requirement for teachers was a great step forward to ensuring our kids had a better chance of a good education, especially, when being required to pass 'Standardized Testing' along the way.
Have to read it to believe it:
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As part of a 2019 plan to improve Ontario students’ dismal scores on standardized math tests, the provincial government instituted a mandatory math proficiency test for new teaching graduates. The test didn’t require teachers to be serious mathematicians, but they did need to get 70 per cent on the test, which measured math knowledge and teaching strategies and covered Grade 3 to Grade 9 math.
Something similar is required in countries such as the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, several states in the United States, Japan, Singapore and China.
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The teaching students formed a group called the Ontario Teachers’ Candidate Council and took the matter to court.
They found an oblique, and ultimately successful, way to overturn the test. Instead of attacking the concept directly, the teachers’ lawyer argued that the test violated the Charter rights of “racialized” students because they didn’t pass at as high a rate as white students. Black and Indigenous students were particularly affected, the Divisional Court was told.
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Earlier in December, the court ruled in favour of the student teachers, saying “Racialized teacher candidates have gone through an education system in which they have suffered discrimination and disadvantage.”
The results of the first math test show that 70.3 per cent of Black teacher candidates and 71.4 per cent of Indigenous candidates passed. The pass rate for white candidates was 90.5 per cent.
The ruling also stated “racialized students benefit from being taught by racialized teachers.” The three-judge panel concluded that this advantage was so great that it outweighed the benefits of teachers having to prove they have a reasonable familiarity with math and how to teach it.
more info: https://nationalpost.com/opinion/ran...han-competence
