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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I posted the links to open FCPS jobs.  There is no opportunity to read the study.  The job openings are for specific subjects and age groups-elementary and secondary.

Here is the most info on the actual study available to the public:
http://hepg.org/her-home/issues/harvard-educational-review-volume-87-number-1/herarticle/where-are-all-the-black-teachers

The newspaper articles give us a total not data per position for applicants.  The aggregate is only relevant if per position applications were the same.  Now let's get rid of the foreign language teachers which are over 10% of the listings and add AA teachers and lower regular ed class size.  How many AA applicants for sped, Italian, German, Korean, Chinese, Japanese?  [/quote]

Please no Saturday morning quarterbacking. Mason put in the WORK. They put in the time, energy and efforts and left no stone unturned. They looked at every varying factor any armchair researcher could imagine. And if you read the article closely enough, you'll realize that.

It's "interesting" to see people try to scramble for an excuse for racism. After all, YOU're not the one being treated unfairly.

The second there's research about (white) women earning less, no one starts wondering how many of those women work part-time, took off time to have babies, question their educational background and undergraduate major in relation to men, etc.

Give it a rest already and face your racism.

I believe some of you mean well but truly do not know how clueless you are or the depth of your own racism. Just because you don't burn crosses on lawns and have a friendly relationship with "the blacks" on your job doesn't mean you don't harbor deep-seated racism.[/quote]

Oh so I'm a racist because the conclusions were aggregates and on average?  Ok so out of the under 100 jobs open how many AA applicants have applied for Korean, Chinese, Japanese teaching positions?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/black-teacher-applicants-face-discrimination-in-a-wealthy-school-district-study-finds/2017/05/04/ea192b50-2a90-11e7-a616-d7c8a68c1a66_story.html?utm_term=.73545f6466ee&wpisrc=nl_buzz&wpmm=1

"The study asserts that racial bias in hiring may be contributing to the persistent dearth of black teachers in public education, a problem that has long been pinned on a lack of qualified applicants and interest."

To see evidence of bias each job type-specification - and applicants v hires has to be analyzed.  Do you suggest FCPS gets rid of the classroom teachers who are in their 50's and 60's and hire only AA's?   FCPS has some old teachers with decades in the system filling choice classroom teacher slots.  [/quote]

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