'Just Wait Until You Hear What This Teachers Union President Is Blaming
for Disastrous Test Scores'

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'n 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.'

'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.'

Studies repeatedly demonstrate that test scores drop as the number of
children from rightist families increases.

The low intelligence of rightists is a major problem in all walks of life,
here and abroad.

Study links low intelligence with right-wing beliefs

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Researchers have found a possible explanation for why certain people are
prejudiced: they're less intelligent.

Children with lower general intelligence are more likely to become
prejudiced as adults, according to a Brock University study.

The study, published in the journal Psychological Science, examined data
from two large-scale British studies, and found lower intelligence scores
in childhood were predictors of greater racism in adulthood, which the
researchers controversially explain is brought about by adopting right-wing
ideologies.

A secondary analysis of data from a U.S. study also showed those with poor
abstract-reasoning skills were more likely to have anti-homosexual
prejudice, partially linked to authoritarian attitudes.

Lead researcher Gordon Hodson told LiveScience that the results of the
study indicate a vicious cycle, in which people with low intelligence are
drawn to socially conservative ideologies. In turn, those ideologies can
contribute to prejudices.

"Socially conservative ideologies tend to offer structure and order," he
said, explaining why those with lower intelligence may gravitate toward the
right. "Unfortunately, many of these features can contribute to prejudice."

The researchers found that people with lower intelligence also tended to
have less contact with other races and groups, which, Dr. Hodson said,
supports previous research that determined interacting with other groups is
mentally challenging and cognitively draining.

Dr. Hodson explained the findings do not mean all liberals are smart and
all conservatives are stupid, LiveScience.com reports. "There are multiple
examples of very bright conservatives and not-so-bright liberals, and many
examples of very principled conservatives and very intolerant liberals," he
said.