Ah Diversity (All Hail Diversity!). What a scam! As anyone who has at least one functional brain cell knows, Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) is nothing but rebranded affirmative action for Negros with some crumbs left over for homosexuals, women, Hispanics, and crips. Back in the 90’s affirmative action had gotten a real bad rep since people were tired of seeing unqualified Negros hired and promoted over more qualified whites. I saw it at IBM. Of course, corporations were shaken down by RWPPs like Jesse Jackson and it was easier to just buckle down and take the hit of some incompetence to avoid the bullshit from the racial grievance industry. But the workforce was getting pissed off. What to do? What to do? Then someone got the bright idea of Diversity (All Hail Diversity!).

Every year at IBM we had a requirement of having a meeting on affirmative action and equal opportunity. This was to convince us that hiring and promoting unqualified Negros was a good idea. Back in the 90’s this changed. It started with a town hall meeting on Diversity (All Hail Diversity!). A whole shitload of us had to attend it and it was held in one of those large banquet rooms. It was an all day affair. We had a bunch of speakers, most of them Negros, to ram Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) down our throats. One of them was the newly minted Vice President of Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) a position created by Lou Gerstner who was running IBM at the time. We were told that Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) was about Negros, homosexuals, women, Hispanics, and crips (pretty much in that order). I ducked out at lunch time and went back to the office to do productive work.

As an aside, if you don’t believe Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) is mostly for Negros look at who is in charge of Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) at your organization. I’ll bet that person is a Negro.

I was pretty pissed off anyway since there wasn’t much handicapped parking and the closest parking place I could find was about a quarter of a mile way! I wrote a Speak Up! (a suggestion/complaint program at IBM) that you would think that a mandatory meeting designed to ram Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) down our throats would take Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) into account and have enough handicapped parking for crips. Their reply was that I should have requested special accommodations.

One of the mottos thrown around about Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) is Strength Through Diversity (All Hail Diversity!). What a bunch of bullshit that is. Here is an example of that. Thanks to many readers who sent me this article.

Officials at the New York State Board of Regents believe it is more important to be politically correct than to ensure that the individuals educating New York’s students have a mastery of the English language. Associated Press reports that the Board of Regents plans to scrap a literacy test for potential teachers today because too many non-whites are failing the test. Critics claim the test is making it difficult to achieve diversity within the teaching profession.

The test in question is the Academic Literacy Skills Test (ALST), which “measures whether a prospective teacher can understand and analyze reading material and also write competently,” according to the New York Post.

The ALST was introduced in the 2013-2014 school year, along with three other assessments, ostensibly to raise the quality of teachers in New York by assessing reading and writing skills and testing an individual’s ability to master the Common Core standards for English. New York State Deputy Commissioner of Education Ken Wagner defended the test as one that would help to “ensure that each newly certified teacher entered the classroom with certain minimum knowledge, skills and abilities.”

We had the same problem at IBM. Not enough women and minorities were passing an aptitude test to be hired as customer engineers, so they scrapped the test because it was discriminatory. That was what the frickin’ test was designed to do! It was designed to discriminate against people who didn’t have the skills for the job. This was back in the late 70’s and was the result of affirmative action and equal opportunity. I crossed over from the Mattel Division Office Products Division to the Field Engineering Division in 1978 and was shocked to find out that my classmates hadn’t had to take an aptitude test and some were totally unqualified and naturally flunked out of the class. One of the women had no electronics background at all. This was a position where one had to repair electronic equipment. She didn’t even know Ohm’s Law. There were four people in my class that had no business being there and an aptitude test would have weeded them out. Instead, IBM had to hire them, send them to school where they flunked out, and find them another position or fire them. One of the students in my class who flunked out and got fired sued IBM. I never found out what happened, but I imagine IBM settled since that was usually cheaper than going to court.

Improving the quality of teachers is of prime importance to the education reform movement, according to AP. A December 2016 study by the National Council on Teacher Quality found that 44 percent of teaching programs accepted students from the bottom half of their high school classes.

I remember Neal Boortz, a now retired talk show host in Atlanta used to say that the dumbest college students went into education. The next dumbest go into journalism.

The ALST is comparable to a 12th grade-level assessment, states the executive director of the New York office of the Education Trust Ian Rosenblum, and is comprised of multiple choice questions based on reading passages such as President John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address.

When the test was first rolled out, the statewide pass rate was 68 percent, prompting State Education Commissioner John King to announce that New York’s teacher-prep programs needed to improve or be closed.

“It’s better to have fewer programs that better prepare teachers than having many schools that have teachers who are unprepared for the classroom,” King said.

Sounds good. Unfortunately that doesn’t work in the real world.

But focus has been redirected from failing teacher-prep programs to the test itself. Critics claim it hurts diversity because too many non-white individuals are failing it. AP reports that just 46 percent of Hispanic test-takers and 41 percent of black test-takers passed the test at first try, compared to 64 percent of white test-takers.

And as we all know, Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) is more important than competence because there is “Strength in Diversity (All Hail Diversity!)”.

In 2015, individuals who had failed the ALST challenged the test in court with claims that it is discriminatory, but a federal judge determined that the test was not racially discriminatory.

Judge Kimba M. Wood, a failed Bill Clinton nominee for U.S. attorney general, ruled that just because racial minorities scored lower on the test did not mean it was discriminatory. Wood determined that the test accurately evaluates the skills necessary to teach successfully and therefore has a place in determining which individuals should be permitted to teach.

The judge may as well have said that Negros and Hispanics were dumber than whites but we can’t have that can we?

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Despite this ruling, however, members on the Board of Regents assert that the test is hurting its agenda of achieving a diverse workforce of school teachers. Professor of Education at Pace University Leslie Soodak, who served on the task force behind the recommendation to eliminate the ALST, said, “Having a white workforce really doesn’t match our student body anymore.”

It’s more important to have a bunch of dumb Negro and Hispanic teachers because of Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) and people are wondering why our schools are failing? The article continues with more bullshit and reading the rest of it makes it easy to understand why we are producing a class of minority illiterates who are unqualified to find decent jobs all in he name of Diversity (All Hail Diversity!). It’s nice to know that we’ll have a nice diverse underclass although it will tend to be made up mostly of Negros and Hispanics.

Read the rest of the article and weep. We’re doomed!