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> The Divisional Court found that the Math Proficiency Test had an adverse impact on entry to the teaching profession for racialized teacher candidates and othe
by bjt2n3904 5y ago
> The Divisional Court found that the Math Proficiency Test had an adverse impact on entry to the teaching profession for racialized teacher candidates and other reasonable alternatives should have been implemented.
What is a "racialized" teacher?
From the sample test questions:
There is a bag of 25 marbles. 5 are yellow. What percentage of marbles are not yellow?
If I were "racialized", I would be insulted to hear it suggested that the requirement was being removed, because it made it unfairly difficult for my "race" to become a teacher.
- bloak 5y ago> What is a "racialized" teacher? The meaning seems to be "belonging to a racial minority", and that sense of the word seems to be specific to Canadian English because when I search for "racialized X", for various values of X, I keep finding Canadian web sites. Ils sont fous, ces canadiens.
- bjt2n3904 5y agoThis is a bit tongue in cheek. We all know what it means in common parlance, but it's a very slushy term. The word implies that it is a status, or a process, which makes conversation even more confusing. But ultimately, there's only one race -- the human race. Talking about a minority as if they are a separate race is extremely unproductive. I think what we really intend to discuss ethnicity.
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