No Black Or Ethnic Minority Headteachers In Scotland- Political Correctness Again

[gordiescotland1]

Hi there
The Scottish government are on their political correctness bandwagon again by moaning about the fact that there are no black or ethinic minority headteachers in Scotland instead of it being racism could it not be that no applications from these minorities met the criteria for the posts? Surely when recruiting interviewers need to select the most suitable person for the post regardless of skin colour soon employers will have to select a black person for a post not because they are the most suitable but because it is the politically correct thing to do it is getting quite ridicolus !!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-33122160

[Slapshot]

Another joke.......for education to advance we need senior teachers in schools whi are there on MERIT AND ABILITY not because of colour, creed or religion

[sandyRoe]

Though does it not seem strange that there is not one Black or Asian teacher in the whole of Scotland who could hold a post as headmaster?

[mushroom25]

yes, slapshot - but today, how many headteachers actually teach? today, school heads are not educationalists now, they're managers.

[retrocop]

Perhaps that is what is meant by the North/South divide.The ratio of black ethnics is unbalanced.

[retrocop]

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Answer to Sandy

[wolf63]

In my city we don't have very many ethnic minorities. Mostly white European. There are lots of places in Scotland that are like that and that could help explain the situation.

[ichkeria]

I don't think they are saying it is racism. Nor that the most apt people shouldn't be selected.
They are saying that the ethnic make up of the teachers doesn't match that of society at large, And rightly asking questions about it,

[Svejk]

///And rightly asking questions about it///

Missed 'in my opinion' off that, ichi.

[anotheoldgit]

Perhaps Scotland should make it more attractive for ethnic minorities to settle there, after all England is full up.

[retrocop]

Well Nicola Sturgeon fought her campaign on allowing more immigration so she could put her money where her mouth is or was that more political lies.?

[wolf63]

I don't think that there is anything preventing people - even English people - from moving to Scotland. Maybe the weather or the language difficulties. Who knows.

:-)

[ToraToraTora]

Perhaps they are not anti English enough.

[anneasquith]

by jove ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,I think ttt has the answer,

[bazwillrun]

Shouldnt the priority be the current standards of education and not pandering to quotas and PC ?......

[anotheoldgit]

/// "Black and ethnic minority parents are more likely to have a more positive attitude when they consider their relationship with the school. ///

/// "There is a greater likelihood of attitudinal change amongst the ethnic majority teacher workforce if amongst the workforce there are black and ethnic minority promoted colleagues." ///

Why should there be?

We are constant told we are all equal, so why their constant need to create an 'us and them' situation?

This is predominately a white European Christian country, and others should just integrate without the need to be treated any differently, if anyone is deliberately treated simply because of their colour, religion or ethnicity then obviously there is something wrong.

I wonder if there is a constant need for whites to make up the diversity in majority black or Asian countries, I fear not.

[bazwillrun]

"I wonder if there is a constant need for whites to make up the diversity in majority black or Asian countries, I fear not. "

in most they couldnt get rid of us quick enough....

[-Talbot-]

Why don't these people asking these types of questions ever ask things like...


Why are white people not proportionately represented in hospitals?

(possibly because noboby gives a ***, so long as you get good treatment)

Is it an actual job to think these questions up?

[jim360]

If there are no black/ ethnic minority headteachers because:

- they are being actively discriminated against (conscious bias), this is obviously wrong.
- they are being passively discriminated again (unconscious bias), this is also wrong, and it's important to work to combat this. Because then, that would mean that the most able candidates, or at least equally capable candidates, are being turned down for no good reason.
- they are worried about possible discrimination, then we should work to change such attitudes and encourage everyone to apply if they are interested.
- such candidates are failing to meet the required standards of capability, then that implies a problem further down the line, eg bad educational standards that are still a hangover of the time when there was active discrimination.

Either way, whenever the ethnic diversity of a particular profession does not statistically match that of the society it's drawn from, then there is reason to wonder why this is. If you want to be sure that candidates are being selected based on merit then it follows that the overall workforce has to be decoupled from any other factor. This means ethnic diversity similar to the society. It's not PC nonsense to say so.

[Svejk]

^it is.

[anotheoldgit]

Why is it that we don't see enough black or Asian refuge collectors, road workers, etc, etc?

The ethnic make up of these type of trades doesn't match that of society at large.