Chicago parents have been wondering when Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates was going to address the disastrous reading and math scores in Chicago public schools. Now she has.
In an interview in early August with Chicago radio news station WVON 1690, Ms. Gates was asked to respond to the union’s critics who are concerned that so many of Chicago’s students aren’t reading or doing math at grade level. Her novel answer: The tests are racist so they should be ignored.
“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,” Ms. Gates said.
“If you have another hour, I can get into why standardized tests are born out of the eugenics movement,” she continued. “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.”
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