Wow, this is bizarre. I've lived in California my whole life, and taken numerous IQ tests, and I never knew that a 1979 judicial ruling prohibits giving IQ tests to black kids.
Pamela Lewis wanted to have her 6-year-old son Nicholas take a standardized IQ test (search) to determine if he qualifies for special education speech therapy. Officials at his school routinely provide the test to kids but as Lewis soon found out, not to children who are black, due to a statewide policy that goes back to 1979.It's amazing to me how much bigotry and discrimination get institutionalized by those on the left who claim to want everyone to be treated equally under the law.At that time, many black kids performed poorly on the IQ test and wound up in special education classes. A lawsuit claimed the test was biased and a judge agreed — banning public schools from giving the test to black children while allowing it for everyone else.
If I were to have my child tested for IQ, I'm not sure I would want them to have the results.
I was tested at a young age and assigned an IQ of 100. Back then it was taught that IQ was fixed and indicated the limits of your intelligence and probable achievement. For a good while, I performed according to expectations, getting mostly C's. Later, I realized how dumb it was to be boxed in by someone else's assessment of my intelligence.
Many years later, my IQ was tested at 125. Did I change? Were the testing conditions different? Does it matter?
If IQ is used as merely one tool in trying to figure out how to educate a child, fine. As "the" standard for educational placement it has much to be desired.
In my business, we have a saying, "don't ask the question if you're not ready to act on the answer."
Black "communities" have a multitude of negatives which result in children arriving poorly able to receive education. The bureaucracy knows it. The mainstream black "leaders" know it. But anyone who attempts to talk about the real problem is quickly marginallized.
Only recently has this begun to change. Bill Cosby's voice is calling things as they are and telling black people where the real problems are. It remains to be seen if they will act on this information.
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I tested in 1968 (at age seven) and was assigned the score of 132. (As Michael well knows, I'm black. Didn't do me any good. I'm still trying to get a B.S. (Heh.)
I think part of what is measured is how well--and how early--the parents have taught their children the three R's; innate ability is a smaller part of the tally. (In my case, the indoc started very early.) Are today's black parents slacking in this area? Many aren't, but too many are and not just the poor ones.
The abolition of the test is just an example of hiding the evidence.
J: And hinding the evidence is a huge part of the problem, and totally defeats the purpose of testing.
Some kind of testing needs to be done before students enter each level of schooling, so we can evaluate how much their final score is the result of the school's efforts.
Low IQs in some groups may be due to undiagnosed lead poisoning. Lead poisoning causes increased irritability too, another stereotypical trait of the 'underclass.'
Thought you might like to know that here in England the head of the Commission for Racial Equality, Trevor Phillips (himself a black man) has recently caused much controversy, unsurprisingly, by suggesting that black boys who are underachieving should be taught separately from girls and all white children. Although plenty of white boys underachieve, as well as many girls, both black and white, the ratio is higher amongst black boys. It has also been mooted that to attract more black teachers they should receive a higher salary than white teachers. Talk about divisive!
Huh. It looks like this guess not to give IQ tests to Black kids in an attempt not to forward more Humiliation to the black community. I find this sad to see the black community being protrayed as "Idiots". Most of the my "White" counterparts down here in Canada specifially Toronto are as most as underachievers than some black kids. I'm not trying to say either Blacks or whites are stupid. So What, a bunch of "Black" kids uachieved lower than 100 on an IQ test. That doesn't truly mean that all blacks are stupid. Besides some black people are reacting to the information that there are all gangsters, pimps and convicted felons in a negative fashion by being those kinds of people that i have mentioned above. All blacks should be proving those stereotypical comments wrong, which they are but we need more.
I think that everyone needs to be treated equally and not be judged based on their race. So affirmative action should be stopped and giftedness qualifications should be the same for everyone.