Oh, man, you can't make this stuff up.

Over at FRK somebody commented that, as a (white) pre-k teacher of (predominately or entirely) black students she had been asked not to put on her desk a picture of her kids because it might make the kids feel bad or... something. This, of course, is patently ridiculous.

I commented vaguely that while it certainly would be nice for there to be more non-white teachers, that's no reason to make up stupid rules to hem in the teachers we've already got.

And I got a reply from a third person. You're gonna laugh:

You know, it *would* be good if the demographics of teachers more accurately mirrored the demographics of the population of this country

You mean, as a nation, we should have more white teachers? More like 75% of our teachers should be white instead of the current 59%, in order to better reflect the population of this country?

The first part is my quoted comment, of course.

There is exactly one response to this, and that is to ask what the hell universe this person lives in where only 59% of the teachers are white. Maybe I should ask what definition of "white" she's using, because when I checked on google a variety of sources told me that 85% - 90% of k-12 teachers in the US are white. Depending on whether or not you count white Hispanics as "white" or as "Hispanic", either 75% or 65% of the nation is white, so... yeah, it's still a little disproportionate.

You know, I don't get why people make up numbers like this. It's not like it's hard to check this stuff nowadays.