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Just Wait Until You Hear What This Teachers Union President Is Blaming for Disastrous Test Scores
Townhall ^ | 08/20/2024 | Madeline Leesman

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.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: education; teachersunion; testscores; unions
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To: SeekAndFind
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

So, get rid of the tests then there is no blame and no problem, right? In Shitcago it seems not even showing up and going to government union run schools would be an improvement on learning outcomes.

41 posted on 08/20/2024 12:06:42 PM PDT by Gritty (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution. - Saul Alinsky)
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To: SeekAndFind

Testing has been done for centuries and in societies with zero blacks around. Therefore it cannot possibly be racist. q.e.d.


42 posted on 08/20/2024 12:27:37 PM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: SeekAndFind

So nothing to do with incompetence from the teachers and staff?


43 posted on 08/20/2024 12:45:27 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: SeekAndFind

Meritocracy is a Western ideology that has been widely copied to one degree or another by many nations and cultures to pull themselves up out of their inherited states of barbarity.

But today the oligarchs are embarked on a major drive to reestablish the hereditary rulership of the “Ancient Regime” that “The Revolution of 1775” started the collapse of.


44 posted on 08/20/2024 1:44:44 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: Red Badger

I be’s produck of public edakashun


45 posted on 08/20/2024 1:51:36 PM PDT by DaiHuy (I support LGBTQ. (Lets Get Biden to Quit.))
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To: SeekAndFind

In the latter years of slavery, some states made it illegal to teach slaves to read and write. After slavery, Democrats had to come up with another way of keeping black people illiterate, so they turned to public schools in inner cities.


46 posted on 08/20/2024 2:51:18 PM PDT by csn vinnie
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To: webheart
Standardized testing is bad because of origins in the eugenics movement

Ignorant woman. Standardized testing had its origins a couple of thousand years ago in China. The tests were developed to eliminate bias in hiring for the civil service.

I suspect she did not do well on standardized tests.

47 posted on 08/20/2024 5:10:07 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: bgill

Ha!!! Good point.


48 posted on 08/21/2024 7:50:25 AM PDT by Scarlett156 (Shame and humiliation be damned!)
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To: SeekAndFind
I don't understand why there isn't more private schools being created in our nation. I would think there would be lots of money to be made there.

Maybe that could be something trump could bring up. Tax breaks for private schools. Private schools are desperately needed, and a little competition might be just the thing for the public ones...

49 posted on 08/21/2024 8:10:24 AM PDT by unread (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC..!)
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