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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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1 posted on 05/05/2021 8:35:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Harrison Bergeron was unavailable for comment.


2 posted on 05/05/2021 8:38:29 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: SeekAndFind

“Tracking” made a better educational system for everyone.

But that is why the communists did away with it. Because it worked.


3 posted on 05/05/2021 8:39:20 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


4 posted on 05/05/2021 8:39:23 AM PDT by stanne
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To: SeekAndFind

If California is worried about inequality, it can share a $100,000+ pensioner’s payouts with me.


5 posted on 05/05/2021 8:40:13 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


6 posted on 05/05/2021 8:40:13 AM PDT by adorno
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To: SeekAndFind
equal/equi
7 posted on 05/05/2021 8:43:09 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there is no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


8 posted on 05/05/2021 8:43:10 AM PDT by BobL (TheDonald.win is now Patriots.win)
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9 posted on 05/05/2021 8:44:06 AM PDT by CtBigPat (The period of Crisis is ending. Now comes Normalization.)
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To: adorno

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.


10 posted on 05/05/2021 8:46:27 AM PDT by angry elephant (Been with Trump since huge 2016 Washington state rally in May.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education!


11 posted on 05/05/2021 8:47:08 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, if they can’t count, they can always get a job at the Board of Elections.


12 posted on 05/05/2021 8:48:42 AM PDT by econjack
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


13 posted on 05/05/2021 8:49:47 AM PDT by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: SeekAndFind

No Child Left Behind has turned into No Child Gets Ahead


14 posted on 05/05/2021 8:50:20 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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To: SeekAndFind

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?


15 posted on 05/05/2021 8:51:08 AM PDT by twister881
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To: SeekAndFind

“Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.”
― George Orwell, 1984


16 posted on 05/05/2021 8:52:38 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
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To: twister881

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?


17 posted on 05/05/2021 8:52:57 AM PDT by twister881
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


18 posted on 05/05/2021 8:54:05 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: adorno

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.


19 posted on 05/05/2021 8:54:26 AM PDT by georgiarat (A legal System that isn't applied equally has no moral authority.)
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To: twister881

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?


20 posted on 05/05/2021 8:54:54 AM PDT by twister881
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