But that’s the point. They are not memorizing their tables. Memorization is now racist, since so many inner- city children cannot memorize. Of course, the reason is supposed to be brain damage due to all the lead they ingested from chewing on painted window sills.
So now no students memorize, and academic standards are lowered to accommodate all the window sill chewers.
Once again, you have the wrong end of the stick.
It is not that "inner-city children cannot memorize" it is that they can.
What they can not do, along with most non-inner-city children, is figure out the mess that is Common Core.
And lacking parents to try to puzzle it out math will remain forever the unknown country. This will leave them neatly trapped in their cast forever having to do what their political masters order to survive.
Democrats are not in any way shape or form trying to help minorities, they are doing their best to lock them into the dependent or servant class.