“Anti-racism” is finding itself the goal of more and more school districts as critical race theory takes hold. Teachers are attending seminars on the white supremacist foundation of math classes: it’s considered “whiteness” to focus on students getting the “right answer,” and rather than asking students to show their work (which is also a form of white supremacy), teachers are encouraged to offer alternatives, such as having students make TikTok videos to show their understanding of abstract concepts. And nothing is more rooted in white supremacy than standardized testing.
New York congressman and former middle school principal Jamaal Bowman tweeted this cartoon the other day, and all it makes us wonder is, does Bowman really see children in the classroom as different as a bird and a fish?
Our education system and the problem with standardized testing. pic.twitter.com/qydTfXgIri
— Jamaal Bowman (@JamaalBowmanNY) March 29, 2021
rethink this
— eigenrobot (@eigenrobot) March 31, 2021
Bari Weiss calls it “the neo-racism of ‘anti-racism.'”
The neo-racism of "anti-racism." https://t.co/waxxjTMS7z
— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) March 31, 2021
Former middle school teacher turned progressive politician. Combo made in woke hell.
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) March 31, 2021
Wokism is mental illness wrapped in racism disguised as political correctness.
— VoxYehudi (@VoxYehudi) March 31, 2021
The whole reason for testing is different people have different skills and abilities. If they didn’t and we were all the same there’d literally be no reason to test.
— TAFKA (@AaronHa60646169) March 31, 2021
Isn't he making a case for individualized education and this school choice/charter schools/alternative education models?
— Das Kapital Management (@YearOTheDolphin) March 31, 2021
The image is correct. In school I was always loosing swim meets to my dolphin classmates and the elephants always kicked my ass at chess ?. The metaphor is so shallow and dumb only a smart person could find wisdom in it.
— The Story Time Machine (@ImposterCentral) March 31, 2021
I usually disagree with practically everything you say, but you're absolutely right about this one. That cartoon is horrible.
— Kevin Hates Writing (@kevinh8swriting) March 31, 2021
So, different human beings are entirely different species from an evolutionary standpoint? That seems wrong to me.
— StCharlesGary (@gary_stcharles) March 31, 2021
Oh look, we're comparing kids of different races to different kinds of animals. Let's teach kids that certain "races" are inherently better at "standardized tests" than others. This is so wack!
— patricia connor (@patriciapconnor) March 31, 2021
Maybe it’s not about race at all. But what are the chances of that?
Are we all separate species now?
— M. Morningstar (@MPerpostnews) March 31, 2021
So, you're saying that the differences between any two human beings is the same as the difference between an elephant and a penguin?
Did you pause and think about this for a single second before Tweeting this, because it is embarrassingly stupid.https://t.co/bRmeAdCUIp
— Bonk (@BonkPolitics) March 31, 2021
He is just saying that different human groups are like different species, and that monkeys invented trees to screw with goldfish.
— Positive Entropy (@PositiveEntrop1) March 31, 2021
— I got your #Unity right here (@jtLOL) March 31, 2021
This was not well thought out and doesn't do what you think it does.
— Sean Agnew (@seanagnew) March 31, 2021
By his cartoon we shouldn’t be able to do the same work either. Does he list which jobs are better suited to which “races”? Could this cartoon be any more racist?
— Peter Young?? (@PeterYoungDairy) March 31, 2021
Not a good analogy. Climbing a tree is one thing, we measure many.
— Globalone (@Globalone) March 31, 2021
Standardized tests measure literacy and numeracy https://t.co/eFWhpIFDhG
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) March 31, 2021
The statement that expecting people to read and do math is analogous to a goldfish climbing a tree doesn't make the point you think it does.
— Razor (@hale_razor) March 31, 2021
This person is a member of congress.
— Mark Ashworth (@marklarflash) March 31, 2021
"Some student's simply CANNOT do it." –an idiotic advocate of lowered expectations
— J.G. Petruna (@jgpetruna) March 31, 2021
This is…not at all what I was getting at when I said people don't want to have actual difficult conversations about race. FFS pic.twitter.com/4o97XZObgs
— Chief Impact Officer BT (@back_ttys) March 31, 2021
I'm old enough to remember when activists thought it was offensive to suggest that different humans were not of the same species
— Peter Ingemi (@DaTechGuyblog) March 31, 2021
This is a perfect analogy provided that you are teaching a class full of creatures from disparate species.
— Alan Curtis (@Alan__Curtis) March 31, 2021
I am a sixth grade teacher of one species.
— easy carrots ?️ (@easycarrots) March 31, 2021
The argument over standardized testing is moot when we’re at the point where we’re arguing about the “whiteness” of getting the “right” answer to a math problem.
Related:
Umm … WUT?! Oregon schools’ rationale for what constitutes white supremacy in ‘math’ classrooms is STUPID on steroids https://t.co/DKArDVCsEH
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) February 15, 2021
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