Look, we need diversity, because it’s our values.

And we can’t get diversity if we also tell people they need to know how to read.

Would you rather have teachers who can read, or would you rather have them be diverse?

We all know the answer to that, because diversity is our greatest strength.

Fox News:

Teachers in New Jersey will no longer be required to pass a basic reading, writing and mathematics test to be eligible for public schools, according to a new law.

Act 1669, which was signed into law by Gov. Phil Murphy, D., in June, went into effect on Wednesday at the start of the new year. The law aims to tackle teacher shortages in the state by removing what the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA), a teachers’ union, called a “barrier” to certification in 2023.

The law states, “[T]he State Board of Education shall not require a candidate seeking a certificate of eligibility, a certificate of eligibility with advanced standing, a provisional certificate, or a standard instructional certificate to complete a Commissioner of Education-approved test of basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills including, but not limited to, the Praxis Core Academic Skills for Educators test, in order to obtain a certificate of eligibility, a certificate of eligibility with advanced standing, a provisional certificate, or a standard instructional certificate.”

The Praxis Core Academic Skills for Educators test is used by over 40 states and territories in the country and includes questions on English and mathematics as well as basic questions on specific subjects.

“We need more teachers. This is the best way to get them,” Democratic state Sen. Jim Beach argued when the bill was passed.

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Over the past few years, multiple states have lowered standards for teacher certification to combat a nationwide shortage. In 2022, California enacted an emergency executive order to throw out the required traditional credentials for teachers to help recruit parents as substitutes.

Arizona enacted a similar order that year that allowed educators to begin teaching before graduating from college.

This whole “school” thing seems to have run its natural course.

I was never a big supporter, but now it just seems ridiculous to suggest that children deserve to be subjected to this.

The modern schooling system was set up as a babysitter, so women can work, and because it’s inexplicably illegal to have children working.

It’s time to get women out of the workplace and move children into the workplace.

Unions are a plague

What percentage of South Africa is white or otherwise non-black in the current year?

Okay, well.

Just as I thought: the whites are getting together with the Indians and their mulatto henchmen and denying blacks the ability to read.

This is always the game of whites – hold down the blacks by manipulating them into living like primitive savages.

BBC:

Eight out of 10 South African school children struggle to read by the age of ten, an international study has found.

South Africa ranked last out of 57 countries assessed in the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study, which tested the reading ability of 400,000 students globally in 2021.

Illiteracy among South African children rose from from 78% in 2016 to 81%.

The country’s education minister blamed the results on school closures during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Maybe giving all the students candles would help?

Describing the results as “disappointingly low”, Angie Motshekga also said the country’s education system was faced with significant historical challenges, including poverty, inequality and inadequate infrastructure.

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The study showed that 81% of South African children could not read for comprehension in any of the country’s 11 official languages.

Alongside Morocco and Egypt, South Africa was one of only three African countries which participated in the assessments to monitor trends in literacy and reading comprehension of nine- and 10-year-olds.

Based on tests taken every five years at the end of the school year, the new study places countries in a global education league table.

Singapore secured top spot in the rankings with an average score of 587, while South Africa ranked last on 288 points – below second-last Egypt’s average of 378. The scores are benchmarked against an international average of 500.

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South Africa’s struggles with its education system are longstanding, with significant inequality between black and white students a consequence of the segregation of children under apartheid.

And there you have it: whites are, once again, completely responsible for black failure.

You may also note that none of the rest of the black African countries were included in this study.

Obviously, those other black African countries, which do not have any white people to oppress them, would be scoring at 100% or even higher. The study includes the one African country that still has white oppressors just to make the blacks look silly.

Imagine the literacy rate of say, Wakanda. It would easily be 200% or above.

There are people on the earth who will look at this and claim that the explanation is “racism.”

The Hill:

Black North Carolina voters are seeing their ballots rejected at twice the rate of white residents in North Carolina, a study by a University of Florida (UF) elections expert reported.

Black voters in the state are seeing around 4 percent of ballots rejected. Voter advocates say this is because a higher proportion of Black voters are voting by mail for the first time, leading to minor mistakes that nullify votes.

The data was collected by the U.S. Elections Project and managed by Michael McDonald, a UF professor who specializes in American elections.

The race of voters is disclosed in the data because voters can list their race when registering in North Carolina.

Elections officials report the three most common mistakes leading to ballot rejection are omitted signatures, lack of a witness signature, or blank address lines, according to Bloomberg.

T. Anthony Spearman, president of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP, told Bloomberg that African Americans had favored voting in person in past elections, adding for many “this is their first time” voting by mail.

“These mistakes are prone to happen,” Spearman said.

Anyone who has their ballot rejected will be notified and given the opportunity to make corrections, elections officials said. Around 55 percent of ballots that have been received came from Democrats, and 16 percent came from Republicans.

Hilary Harris Klein, an attorney with the voting rights group Southern Coalition for Social Justice, said despite the ability to rectify invalidated ballots, “There is cause for concern when you look at the racial disparity.”

Obviously, the explanation is not racism.

It is black literacy rates.

There is no way that people with literacy levels that low are going to have the same competence in filling out forms as people with an average literacy rate.

If you want to blame abysmal black literacy rates on racism, then, well… we’re going to have to start talking about IQ.

If you want to blame the IQ gap on racism, then at that point, we’re going to have no choice but to start talking about Jews.