Posted on 05/05/2021 8:35:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In the name of equality, the California Department of Education seeks to dumb down the brightest kids.
A friend of mine emailed an article the likes of which always prompts me to say "really?"
Please consider the Reason article In the Name of Equity, California Will Discourage Students Who Are Gifted at Math.
I like to verify things myself and you can do so as well by reading the California Department of Education Mathematics Framework.
In its framework, the Department of Education seeks "Culturally responsive mathematics education."
Active efforts in mathematics teaching are required in order to counter the cultural forces that have led to and continue to perpetuate current inequities. Mathematics pathways must open mathematics to all students, eliminating option-limiting tracking. [i.e. no advance classes].
implementation of this framework and the standards, teachers must be mindful of other considerations that are a high priority for California’s education system including the Environmental Principles and Concepts (EP&Cs) which allow students to examine issues of environmental and social justice.
The evolution of mathematics in educational settings has resulted in dramatic inequities for students of color, girls, and students from low income homes.
Teachers are encouraged to align instruction with the outcomes of the California ELD Standards, which state that linguistically and culturally diverse English learners receive instruction that values their home cultures.
I did not go through all the chapters. Reason uncovered these gems.
The inequity of mathematics tracking in California can be undone through a coordinated approach in grades 6–12.
Middle-school students are best served in heterogeneous classes.
The push to calculus in grade twelve is itself misguided.
To encourage truly equitable and engaging mathematics classrooms we need to broaden perceptions of mathematics beyond methods and answers so that students come to view mathematics as a connected, multi-dimensional subject that is about sense making and reasoning, to which they can contribute and belong.
Reason concludes, and I agree "If California adopts this framework, which is currently under public review, the state will end up sabotaging its brightest students. The government should let kids opt out of math if it's not for them. Don't let the false idea that there's no such thing as a gifted student herald the end of advanced math entirely."
Instead, and in the name of "equity", the proposed framework aims to keep everyone learning at the same dumbed down level for as long as possible.
The intention is clear. The California Board of Education intends to sabotage the best and brightest, hoping to make everyone equal.
The public does not support these polices. Indeed, it is precisely this kind of talk that nearly got Trump reelected.
Biden should speak out against such nonsense, but he won't. He is beholden to Teachers' Unions and Boards of Education.
Care to complain? If so the California Department of Education posted these ways.
Phone: 916-319-0598
Instructional Quality Commission
1430 N Street, Room 3207
Sacramento, CA 95814
Fax: 916-319-0172
Q: Who is the arbiter of environmental, mathematic, and social justice?
A: The California board of Education. They intend to cram it down your child's throat and dumb down gifted kids no matter what their parents believe or how vigorous the objections.
If you wish to protest these absurd policies, phone or write the board of education as posted above.
Better yet, get the hell out of California.
Harrison Bergeron was unavailable for comment.
“Tracking” made a better educational system for everyone.
But that is why the communists did away with it. Because it worked.
Such a great idea. California showing us how it’s done. Meanwhile my real estate value in Texas climbed another 12% last year. There’s construction all over the place here.
If California is worried about inequality, it can share a $100,000+ pensioner’s payouts with me.
Well, democrats do have a point.
If everybody are deprived of education, they will all be equally dumb and ignorant.
Next step: extract the intelligence part of the human brain as soon as a child is born, and nobody will ever be smarter than anybody else.
Equality is going to make humans as smart as worms.
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AMAZING how many well-educated parents never even consider the fact that they could educate their kids in math FAR BETTER than the schools, if they put in a bit of effort. Instead they just bitch.
If everyone was deprived of education I believe that would make a wider gap between the truly bright and ambitious and the slackers.
The bright and ambitious would be able to home school themselves with libraries, the internet and finding some mentors.
The less bright and more lazy would become totally stupid and the brightest would achieve their goals. Most members of congress would likely not self-educate and thus the smarter more independent people would be in charge, like Jefferson and Lincoln.
Well, if they can’t count, they can always get a job at the Board of Elections.
It’s not always the teacher. I attended a grade school where the teachers favored separating the gifted. This was abolished because parents insisted their child was as gifted as the next.
No Child Left Behind has turned into No Child Gets Ahead
Woke Equity Math:
Dick has eight apples, Jane has seven apples, and Tyrone has four apples.
QUESTION: From which elderly Asian woman did Tyrone strong arm rob his apples?
“Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Woke Equity Math:
José mows & trims lawns for $25 apiece. He cuts an average of 14 lawns per day and gives $8 for each to his helper, Juan.
QUESTION: How much did José pay Mexican coyotes to be illegally smuggled into the United States?
Any Asian who continues to vote Dimm in California (or elsewhere) deserves to get their faces kicked in. This policy is about as anti-Asian as it gets.
This is simply to continue the class divide between the “elites” and average citizens. Elites and smart parents send their children to private schools or home school while average children are dumbed down to serve the elites.
Woke Equity Math:
Shaneequa is meeting Tyrone at 6:00pm for a movie. It’s 5:25pm, and Tyrone is seven miles from the theater.
QUESTION: Who is Tyrone’s biological father?
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