If this were done by a conservative school district they would have made the news on every station, and the school board members would have been forced to resign. But instead, no one is blinking an eye that a school board is offering to pay minority teachers extra if they will work with their own race.
“A Minnesota school district will soon exclusively give non-white teachers extra pay to become mentors to other minority teachers.
The Mankato School Board earlier this month voted unanimously to provide “additional stipends” to non-white teachers who become mentors to other non-white colleagues. Additionally, Minnesota-based Alpha News reported that the new policy will also see the district “placing American Indian educators at sites with other American Indian educators and educators of color at sites with other educators of color.”
The school board claims that this new policy will “increase opportunity for collegial support” for teachers who are black, indigenous, and for other people of color. They hope to increase retention rates among these demographics.”
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“Critics have pointed out that the latter of the district’s new policies, which will have administrators placing teachers in work environments based on their race, looks a lot like segregation. Board members explained that this is not segregation, though, before the vote took place.
“When you’re one [minority] of a [white] majority it can be very isolating and lonely. To have a support system in place for them is not to segregate them, it is absolutely to support them,” member Erin Roberts said. “It’s not about trying to throw the few [BIPOC] individuals we have into one building. It’s about showing them they aren’t alone.”
“It creates global citizens at the end of the day,” Vice Chair Kenneth Reid added, speaking on the new policies.”
This is the opposite of diversity. Segregating students does not help them become better “global citizens,” it prevents them from learning about different cultures and new people.
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