I’m all for cancelling it in college. It is supposed to be taught in high school!!!
Whenever the anti-American left can’t justify their BS they resort to calling it a ‘civil rights issue’.
Problem is most of us don’t listen to that anymore.
Time for the satanic left to find a new schtick.
Bull crap!
A janitor tweeted that he uses ALGEBRA every day!
This is precisely what President Dubya meant when he described "the soft bigotry of low expectations.".
Students desperately need to learn self-discipline and responsibility and achievement.
And, a successful completion of college algebra just might open some doors and give an earned feeling of accomplishment to those students who need it most.
Who would be the biggest losers if college algebra were eliminated (or diluted into oblivion)?
Underachieving minorities.
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Didn’t they have to pass Algebra in High School? We need to be increasing technical courses in high school and college not reducing them. Throw in some Calculus too. ha ha
The technical engineering and design jobs in this country are being turned over to immigrant foreigners.
Let’s cancel anything and everything that makes certain groups uncomfortable. To hell with reality! Reality sucks. /s
> The chancellor of California’s community college system said he wants to abolish the college algebra requirement... <
The word “algebra” comes from the Arabic “al-jabr”, meaning “reunion of broken parts”. I’m guessing that the chancellor is a filthy racist who hates Arabs.
We wants us ALLLLLL that tuition $$$$$$$$$$$$$!!!!!
Ferget about weather or not the “students” know—or CAN LEARN—anything at all. That’s not important at all and most likely is just whitey’s discriminationalism!!!
SHOW US THE MUNNNIEEE!!!
Brawndo. It’s got what plants crave.
I think a lot these college students would have trouble with even basic math equations.
Marko
So what’s he saying? The students in the community colleges (mostly “people of color”) are too stupid to learn basic algebra? Sounds racist to me.
You need to know Algebra to calculate how many pesos will be received by your relatives in Mexico when you convert your food stamp dollars into Mexican pesos at the current daily rate of exchange.
use to give basic algebra questions to my nieces an nephews when they were in elementary school. No kiddin’
They got a kick out of working out the “letters-equal-numbers” things.
The article points out the soft racism of low expectations.
Problem is, in truth, for these yahoos in question, they probably are too dumb to figure it out.
Mexico North, formerly known as California, and formerly an actual part of the United States, is now a strange place. Hostility to American, Americans and American values is the core ideology there. Perhaps achievement in mathematics is “too American” for the place?
Why not just simply hand them a diploma - saves money and time.
If they’re too stupid to do simple algebra then they’re too stupid for college.
Just skip the formalities and hand them a degree.
As long as they bury themselves in student loans that they hand over to you, of course.
eloy ortiz is mainly admitting that many of the individuals attending his crappy community “college” should have been given a 6th grade “diploma” years ago and that’s it before they became bathroom attendants or some such. How pathetic. eloy probably got “educated” in the same way.
Was it not but a couple of days ago that I read on FR that 47% of high school seniors were straight “A” students.
Seems to be some sort of disconnect going on here.
Now I read that 50% of college freshmen cannot understand Algebra.