Teachers Union president says standardized tests are racist
Aug 21, 2024
Head of the Chicago Teachers Union, Stacy Gates: Standardized tests are “junk science rooted in White supremacy.”
Translation: Tons of Chicago students can’t read and can’t do math.
The tests measure the degree to which the students has mastered (or not) the materials taught in class.
So Gates needs to overhaul what’s taught in the classroom if she wants to avoid racism.
Let’s see what that looks like.
Instruction in cell phone and tablet use? How to set up a YouTube account? How to qualify for a diagnosis of gender dysphoria?
Maybe Gates is implying that students are learning in class, but the tests are deceptive. How so, SPECIFICALLY?
The students have to read and comprehend the test questions? That’s the problem?
The very idea that 37 plus 24 equals 61 on a test is racist? The sum is actually another number? Addition itself amounts to white supremacy?
I’m intrigued. I want to see Gates’ alternative curriculum and tests. With all the money teachers unions suck in from the government, they should be able to set up one classroom that offers a completely different form of non-racist education. Live stream it every day for the world to watch.
But no. We never seem to find out what these race-card players have in mind for school kids.
I happen to think literacy (the traditional version) is important. Being able to read a book. Being able to write an essay or a story.
If there’s a completely different way to learn how to do these things, I want to know about it.
Osmosis? Taping a book to your chest? Balancing it on your head? Rubbing the cover with your foot? Saying the word RACISM out loud 16 times a day?
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When I taught math at two private schools for remedial students, I had 20 kids in a class, and they were all at different failing levels, and none of them wanted to be there. That was the problem I faced. I struggled to solve it every day.
It never occurred to me I could just cover the whole situation with a blanket word like RACISM and walk away.
It’s pretty amazing that the head of a teachers union can deploy the word to paper over a whole city school system. And free herself from the challenge of trying to teach straight ahead reading, writing, and arithmetic.
Congratulations. Chicago schools aren’t a failure at all. They look like they are, they test like they are, but really they’re just WHITE.
That’s quite a hustle. And how much is Gates making a year?
$289,000.
— Jon Rappoport
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