[ April 27, 2026 ]
This is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of racism. Intelligence and hard work have no colour. Paying folks who fail – now that’s stupid.
As Ayn Rand so pointedly said, ‘It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage—the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors.’ “Like every form of determinism, racism invalidates the specific attribute which distinguishes man from all other living species: his rational faculty. Racism negates two aspects of man’s life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination.”
New York City schools are failing. Apparently not fast enough for the Democrat ruling class.
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NY Post: Failing the New York State teachers’ exam really paid off — especially for a Queens man who learned this month he’s getting a $2 million windfall over it.
Roughly 5,200 black and Hispanic ex-Big Apple teachers and once-aspiring educators are expected to collect more than $1.8 billion in judgments after the city stopped fighting a nearly three-decade federal discrimination lawsuit that found a certification exam was biased.
It’s the largest legal payout in city history.
As of Friday, 225 people who failed the Liberal Arts and Sciences Test used for teacher licensing from 1994 to 2014 had already been notified they’re getting settlements of at least $1 million, according to an analysis of Manhattan federal court records.
The case is expected to generate hundreds of other future million-dollar awards.
ADVERTISEMENTHerman Grim, 64, of Queens, on July 5 was awarded the biggest judgment to date — a jaw-dropping $2,055,383.
Top 10 Payouts to Date:
1-Herman Grim $2,055,383
2-Andrea Durant $1,976,787
3-Kathy Faye Bailey $1,875,119
4-Marthe Cantave $1,826,925
5-Luz Perez $1,771,190
6-Linette Jones $1,695,289
ADVERTISEMENT7-Millicent Eke $1,620,989
8-Angela Perez $1,619,346
9-Elizabeth Catlin $1,610,205
10-Maud Pierre $1,543,519
Source: Manhattan federal court records
Daily Wire: New York City will pay nearly $2 billion to black and Hispanic people who wanted to become teachers but failed the exam, settling a lawsuit that alleged that the disparate passage rates showed that the test was racist. Some individuals who never worked as teachers will get more than $1 million each, and could even get pensions which will inflate the cost well beyond $1.8 billion, the New York Post reported. The Post interviewed 64-year-old Herman Grim, who will be paid $2,055,383 after failing the test “a lot.” He could not provide any examples of how the questions were racist (Daily Wire).
New York Post: The judgments are based on what the teachers and teacher candidates would have earned had they passed the test and kept working in the city’s public school system. Typically, the further back they failed the test, the more money plaintiffs are entitled to. Under an agreement ironed out in November 2021 during then-Mayor Bill de Blasio’s final weeks in office, the city agreed to set aside more than $1.8 billion in funds to pay off the plaintiffs through 2028 (New York Post).
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