Posted on 08/20/2024 9:04:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In an interview with a Chicago radio station, Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates claimed that her students’ awful reading and math scores should be ignored because testing is “junk science” rooted in “white supremacy.”
“The way in which we think about learning and think about achievement is really and truly based on testing, which at best is junk science rooted in white supremacy,” Gates said in the interview, the Wall Street Journal reported.
“If you have another hour, I can get into why standardized tests are born out of the eugenics movement,” she added. “And the eugenics movement has always sought to see black people as inferior to those that are non-black…You can’t test black children with an instrument that was born to prove their inferiority.”
“When people talk to me about testing alone, I have to trouble the waters and challenge that,” she said.
🚨LISTEN to Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates absurdly claim black students can’t succeed on tests because they’re “junk science” rooted in “white supremacy”:
“The way in which we think about learning and think about achievement is really and truly based on… pic.twitter.com/8VdEvVCoRR— Nicki Neily (@nickineily) August 19, 2024
According to the WSJ, listeners “weren’t buying it.” One person who called in stated that “racist” tests are no excuse for allowing black children to fail their classes.
“I want to say as a parent, standardized testing, we’re not ready to move beyond that right now…How can we say that it’s a racist tool? It might be but let me say this to you, I’ve passed every standardized test and I want my children to be able to do it.”
Reportedly, in 2022, The data shows that, in 2022, a mere 9 percent of Chicago’s black eighth graders were proficient in reading and only 4 percent were proficient in math, according to Wirepoints and the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
Gates sent her son to private school, WSJ noted.
The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations
Inner city kids in failed public schools have no future. I guess that’s what Democrats want.
I wonder if black kids beating up any black student who studies because they are “acting White” has anything to do with it
“Okay, Let’s have ALL MEDICAL SCOOLS stop testing................”
I bet within 10 years that will be reality. They’ll admit and graduate based on social scores.
You mispelt skools,
Every kid I know whose parents had them reading and performing some sort of home learning during covid has not have a problem. Sitting at home and watching Sponge Bob and eating Cheetos is what did it. I’d be willing to bet that no Asian students so any sign of being behind.
Own your kids’ education, do not rely on the government nor teachers.
Yes, and the Eugenics “movement” (Margaret Sanger) DID NOT
bring the notion of Standardized College Admissions testing for High School level students seeking admission to 4 year College programs.
The history on this is quite well defined and originated at Princeton University iirc.
Of course, the cultures that rely most heavily on testing to enter higher education are....Asian cultures. I guess they’re racist as well.
I love this part of the article - “Gates sent her son to private school, WSJ noted.”
Obama did the same thing.
“”Okay, Let’s have ALL MEDICAL SCOOLS stop testing.””
What do you call the person who graduates last in medical school?
Doctor
Will the Chicago medical schools now give out ‘participation’ credits for aspiring doctors? Just showing up for all your classes and, Shazam! You are a certified, qualified medical professional.
Perhaps these kinds of doctors could first be assigned to treat all of the victims of Chicago gun violence. I hear it is a growing industry.
And, of course, any white victim will be triaged to the back of the treatment bus.
You mispelt skuuls..........
She needs to attend every gangbanger funeral for a year to see how great a job that the teachers are doing.
So he thinks the tests should be all about ‘dis and ‘dat and nuffin’?
Can’t argue with that. But lots of parents did just what you said; let the TV ‘educate’ their kids.
Fine. Let Miss Stacy create a black standardized test. I’d love to see it.
“If a drug dealer left da hood at 10 pm (not analog), stole a car 15 minutes later, picked up Tray-tray 3 minutes later, did a drive by at the Waffle House 7 minutes later, knifed Tray-tray and rolled him into the river an hour later, hooked up with with his cousin’s baby mama 20 minutes to 3 am, how many years will he be in prison? Show your work.
It’s ridiculous sure, but they’re actually taught this garbage in many universities these days... It’s a race to the bottom because some people don’t keep up.
When parents don’t care, why should the teachers?
Chesk
The other day, it came out the PP condoms are at the bottom of the list. When they fail, PP get to dismember the babies piece by piece just like Hamas. That’s a brilliant mission with sheep in a continuous circle in one door and out the other.
The DNC is supposed to have an 18 foot IUD to go along with the mobile killing buses. Abortions behind curtain A and vasectomies behind curtain V. Hmm, how many pot holes does Chicago have? Hope they hit every last one and watch the balls roll down the aisle. Sing along, “The balls on the bus go rolling on down, rolling on down, rolling on down and out into the street.
Haven’t seen the DNC’s 18 foot IUD and will take a pass on the abortion on stage Thursday. Hope that one is a rumor but who knows these days.
She sounds like a Broward county Democrat. LOL.
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