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To Promote Equality, California Proposes a Ban on Advanced Math Classes
Mish Talk ^ | 05/05/2021 | Mike Shedlock

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.

Dumbing Down of America Takes Another Leap Forward

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.

Culturally Responsive Framework

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."

Introduction Highlights

Teaching for Equity Highlights

Need to Broaden Perceptions of Mathematics

I did not go through all the chapters. Reason uncovered these gems.

Sabotage the Best

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 Number and Address

Phone: 916-319-0598

Instructional Quality Commission
1430 N Street, Room 3207
Sacramento, CA 95814
Fax: 916-319-0172

Social and Mathematical Justice Q&A

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.


TOPICS: Education; Government; Society
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; advancedmath; california; equality; highschool; searchandfind
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

I have a nephew who was/is a computer software whiz—learned _all_ of it on his own using the Internet.

Smart and motivated kids have the greatest resources ever available.

The dumb and/or un-motivated kids are just getting left further and further behind....public schools are part of the problem, not part of the solution.


41 posted on 05/05/2021 10:03:30 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Leaning Right

One of our DILs found out about what you posted 5 years ago when she was trying to get her daughter/our granddaughter into a California Nursing School.

Her daughter would have been graduated with all A’s in honor classes from an excellent private Catholic school with the exception of 2 B’s in French Classes.

That was keeping her daughter from being accepted in any California nursing school program. Our DIL got into a one on one discussions with one of the whomevers, who was turning down her daughter because of her 2 b’s to give her an example of a selected student.

That whomever showed her 2 examples of students from inner city schools with all straight A’s in so called Honor Classes.

After that event, we convinced our DIL to have her a daughter apply to good out of California Nursing Schools.

So they did, and every one of the out of California College/University B$ accepted her. One of the top Nursing school in the NE not only selected her, they offered a $25K/year scholarship.

So our bright young woman accepted the offer and will be graduated this month with honors in 4 years instead who knows 5/7/? years with a California B$ degree.

Also, our dummy, as per California, has been working a few shifts/week in a Covid ICU in an excellent hospital since last summer. That excellent hospital has been paying good money, benefits and donations to a 401k. When she asked why all the benefits, the head RNs at that hospital told her, “When you are graduated this May, you will get a raise and don’t have to worry about job hunting or going back to California and be insulted. We want you to stay and work for our hospital!”


42 posted on 05/05/2021 10:08:32 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( We are alive! In spite of being stupid and getting vaccinated twice!! On: 01/31/2021 & 2/21/2021!)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s beginning to make sense; colleges are becoming steaming shitholes of “wokeness” in lieu of institutions of higher learning because they increasingly with ignorami, the victims of high school’s devolution in pursuit of “equity.” Ho high schools produce idiots and colleges fuel their idiocy even further. Welcome to socialism, where “free college” will make degrees even more worthless.


43 posted on 05/05/2021 10:09:47 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: SeekAndFind

44 posted on 05/05/2021 10:14:41 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: SeekAndFind

I took Calculus as a high school senior, and advanced-placed out of one term of Calculus at a top-ranked university!!!! And I was NOT the very “best and brightest” in math!!!!

Later, I used Calculus for one part of my Harvard Ph.D. thesis in molecular biology!

Current high school students should have AT LEAST the same opportunities I had!!!! That’s more important than “wokeness”!!!!

Besides that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_and_Deliver


45 posted on 05/05/2021 10:15:46 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Taking away the ability of people to achieve something does not achieve equality. What it does is bring down people who try and make them sit there while the dumb ones sit there thinking they have achieved something, meanwhile, everybody suffers and the more intelligent people are frustrated. Those who can do more should be encouraged to do so. That is the way life should be. California is the worst example of a state. Vote Republican to cure the problem.


46 posted on 05/05/2021 10:17:48 AM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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To: SeekAndFind

https://reason.com/2021/05/04/california-math-framework-woke-equity-calculus/

“In the Name of Equity, California Will Discourage Students Who Are Gifted at Math ... The new framework aims to keep everyone learning at the same level for as long as possible.”

And if that doesn’t work well enough, there are several excellent ideas to prolong “equality” in this prescient manual of educational “equality”, “Harrison Bergeron”, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.:

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html

“The new framework aims to keep everyone learning at the same level for as long as possible.”

And if that doesn’t work well enough, there are several excellent ideas to prolong “equality” in this prescient manual of educational “equality”, “Harrison Bergeron”, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.:

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html


47 posted on 05/05/2021 10:26:41 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Certainly.

But, as I noted in the next sentence, both the California legislature and the state’s “Woke” Department of Education will be motivated to surpress countermeasures (including parental protests).

Of course, California does have a record of successful voter ballot initiatives and recalls.

So...


48 posted on 05/05/2021 10:38:19 AM PDT by Captain Rhino (Determined effort today forges tomorrow.)
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To: SeekAndFind

So they are changing the narrative back to equality rather than for equity. This has been about equity, the outcome rather than the opportunity.


49 posted on 05/05/2021 10:39:08 AM PDT by zaxtres (`)
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To: SeekAndFind
If they really cared about equality, they'd ban education altogether.

(Judging from my grandchildren's experiences, I'd say they might as well. Or maybe that they already have!)

50 posted on 05/05/2021 10:57:49 AM PDT by Savage Beast ( A recrudescence of the Inquisition took 213 years, of Nazi Germany 76.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sooooo, they’re telling me that since certain segments of the population cannot do advanced math, we need to bring down the rest so that segment doesn’t get their feelings hurt?


51 posted on 05/05/2021 11:12:39 AM PDT by griswold3 (NBA/ Plumlee Ball. = poor entertainment value while insulting the audience gets you broke )
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To: SeekAndFind

Anyone who’s seen “Stand And Deliver” (an absolutely *outstanding* film based on a true story) knows how absolutely disgusting this is. It’s so disgusting that the Butchers of Beijing are rolling in the aisles with laughter right now.


52 posted on 05/05/2021 11:30:07 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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To: cgbg
It is a bizarre combination of babysitting and prison that will be the subject of ridicule a hundred years from now.

Ditto that. Us sane people can ridicule it right now..

53 posted on 05/05/2021 11:48:22 AM PDT by EVO X
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To: griswold3
we need to bring down the rest so that segment doesn’t get their feelings hurt?

Yup.

Serious math education will have to be done in secret in the basements of homes--don't let the neighbors know!
54 posted on 05/05/2021 11:56:19 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Democrats: Bringing down the USA so our enemies don’t have to.


55 posted on 05/05/2021 1:14:14 PM PDT by griswold3 (NBA/ Plumlee Ball. = poor entertainment value while insulting the audience gets you broke )
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To: DugwayDuke

Back when I was in HS, we were structured as a “ Go to the Head of the Class” game. Best students in front rows. It was a competition every week with each test. Never made it to seat one but was in the front row a couple of times.
Can’t imagine that happening today.


56 posted on 05/05/2021 1:27:52 PM PDT by griswold3 (NBA/ Plumlee Ball. = poor entertainment value while insulting the audience gets you broke )
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To: SeekAndFind

I had a good calculus teacher in high school. Then I started college (Pitt) where the freshman engineering math classes were all taught by grad students that couldn’t speak English. If I hadn’t learned it in high school I would have flunked out of college.


57 posted on 05/05/2021 8:10:29 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
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