What on earth is a 'factual analysis' of the situation?
An analysis based on facts.
You seem to believe that 'racial diversity' is a legitimate reason.
Racial diversity is a
social concept. Much the way "teamwork" or "interpersonal communication" or "employee morale" are social concepts that apply in a similar context. There are various (good and bad) reasons why organizations would want to promote racial diversity in the workplace.
Is racial purity a legitimate reason?
No, racial purity is also a social concept that could be promoted (or discouraged) for various reasons. There, again, are organizations that seek to promote racial purity for various good and bad reasons that are, for them, entirely legitimate.
You would be more comfortable with 10 to 20% of kindergarteners completely loosing their shit and freaking out because they aren't comfortable being left alone with unfamiliar male teachers?
I'd be more comfortable with you actually citing evidence for your claim
I plan to spend not more than 20 minutes and zero money on this website responding to posts that interest me. I don't actually think that spending 3 hours combing through pediatrics journals doing your research for you is worth my time.
What parents? Do you have a link?
A link to the parents that are happy with their kids being comfortable with their teachers more often than not?
No. Kindergarten programs have more female teachers because most of the graduates in early childhood education are female.
And the REASON for that is early childhood education programs are dominated by female educators and have an either official or unofficial policy of only hiring females for lower grade levels (generally by simply failing to recruit male teachers for grades k through 2).
And, I assure you, plenty of people make noise about every side of every issue.
Only when they are aware of an issue that they choose to make a problem of. This is not something most people are aware of, and therefore choose not to make an issue out of.
Recruiting more male teachers at higher grade levels IS an issue (particularly 1st and 2nd grade), and is also a different topic.
Discriminating arbitrarily based on race is wrong.
And if we were discussing "discriminating arbitrarily" you might have a point.
Huh? Why 'only'? No decision is ever only influenced by race
Yes they are. That is the TEXTBOOK example of what racial discrimination is: two candidates with identical backgrounds, identical qualifications, identical work histories, both sufficiently well matched to the job position, and you eliminate one because of his race. The corollary to this is when you have a superior candidate and an inferior one and you pass over the superior one because you don't want to hire someone from that particular race.
Again, you want to convince me that taking race into account IN ANY WAY is morally wrong. You have yet to provide me with a coherent reason why that is, especially given that race is a real thing that actually matters to people and usually has to be addressed with sensitivity even if your only intent is to avoid alienating the people who work for you.
even a hard racist who doesn't want to hire any Whites would still choose the most qualified nonWhite he can find.
His decision not to consider a qualified white candidate who walked in, however, would be an example of racial discrimination. Interestingly, many school districts would (and do) find themselves in the rather odd position of scouting for qualified minority positions and, upon failing to find one, hiring a MORE qualified white teacher for that position on the basis that he who has a background in ethnic studies and experience teaching at school districts with large minority representations. THAT also happens quite a bit, especially in communities where minority applicants attempt to play their own racial background ALONE as a selling point despite their being otherwise unqualified for the job.
Because in YOUR scenario, the decision is based on the psychological needs of the students, (supposedly) solid scientific research and the school's overall education goals. In my scenario, the decision is based on social tension between the students and faculty, the distress and mistrust of the parents and the recognition of the administration that there is a sociological disconnect that cannot be bridged through conventional means.
What if you have a psychological need for racial purity?
Then you probably belong to a school district run by the Aryan Nations or the Christian Identity movement.
Here's a question: do you think white supremacist
organizations have a right to deliberately avoid hiring non-whites? Given that they can demonstrate they hold a worldview that non-whites are inferior and want nothing to do with them, is there any particular reason why white supremacist groups should be forced to hire people from other races they don't want to interact with in the first place? And to clarify: I'm not talking about white supremacist PEOPLE in public positions. Should the United Klans of America be sued by black people because it refuses to hire black pyrotechnicians at its weekly cross burnings?
You believe it's okay to discriminate by race and gender
No, I believe it's okay and prudent to take race and gender into account when it is necessary to do so.
Discriminating by race or gender is an inherent affront to a person's humanity
Which is why it is only one factor of many to be considered, and also why it is secondary to a person's humanity (I DO approve of discrimination against zombies. I make no apologies for this).
Whereas while I believe you that race is real and it matters to people, those people are racially prejudiced assholes
You think that the only people who think race matters in any way shape or form are racially prejudices assholes.
In which case I will not waste my time attempting to reason with you.
