Posted on 06/18/2021 8:31:29 AM PDT by Red Badger
Imagine that a young Isaac Newton, Madame Curie, Henri Poincare, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Albert Einstein, Alan Turing, or, for that matter, Pythagoras, Euclid, or Archimedes was newly enrolled in a Portland, Oregon grade School.
Exposed to this state’s absurd edict regarding how math is to be taught – to make it less “white,” and to remove the onus of showing your work and reaching the right answer — would any of them have achieved prominence?
Would the world be the same?
Racism, Under Every Rock! Consider the ladies profiled in the movie Hidden Figures, including Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Dorothy Vaughan. Without them, we probably still would have made it to the Moon, but maybe with more difficulty and more delay.
What is it about the Left that keeps looking for ways to dumb down education so that anybody, at any time can get a passing grade regardless of what they know? ‘Progressives,’ BLM advocates, and ‘social justice warriors’ detect racism, real or not, everywhere they look, particularly in education.
Achievement tests, end-of-grade testing, report cards, and assigning letter grades to a student’s performance are under attack by the Left. Yet, as Freakonnomics proved, even in ‘poor’ schools, a decent teacher and a motivated student can yield academic success
Tests are Useless? Those on the Left prefer to cast aspersions on American education, stop all testing, apparently for all students, for all time. After all, the tests are hopelessly biased against anything but the Caucasian majority… although Asians seem to do well…
Curiously, the Left never pushes for more rigorous standards. “Why are tests needed at all?” they demand to know. “Learning takes place on many different levels. Why conform to the white man’s version of what represents academic achievement?”
Let’s assess the ramifications of such assertions.
Take the Long Way Home How confident would you be driving across a high bridge, over a wide river, knowing that the bridge was designed by engineers who ‘learned’ math in Oregon, or didn’t take any final exams in college? Knowing the academic credentials of the bridge designers, or lack thereof, could change your driving habits.
What if you need of brain surgery? Among a handful of brain surgeons in your region, you learn that some never took final exams in medical school, or any exams for that matter. These same surgeons turned in no college papers, took no quizzes, and spent little time in class.
Suppose they’re all excellent surgeons and have successfully operated on others many times?
Still, you’ve got this nagging suspicion that your best choice would be among the brain surgeons who attended class, did well on quizzes and tests, passed final exams, and proved to be academically superior.
Would anyone find you to be discriminatory? Can we find fault with your decision to seek a formally trained and tested brain surgeon?
Who Ya Gonna Call? Whether it’s receiving change at the grocery store, having your car fixed at the repair shop, hiring a masseuse, or any of dozens of other product and service options, as Ghostbusters fans would say, “Who ya gonna call?”
A mind is a terrible thing to waste. The false bill of goods that far Left groups peddle will come back to haunt their advocates and apologists, not merely for years, but for decades.
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The girl at the window thought we only ordered one.
So when she handed us just one and quoted the price, $1.27, my wife, who was driving said where the other one, we ordered two.
The girl looked all flustered and called the 'supervisor' to tell her.
After telling the story the supervisor said give them another milkshake!
"But what should I charge them?" the girl asked.
The supervisor just handed my wife the new shake, said thank you and closed the window.....................
They want power over others, because they want it. Reason and common sense persuade others to deny that to them, so they militate against reason and common sense.
It’s not the mathematics, it’s their lack of having an aptitude for it. Some folks are just not mathematically inclined, and whose “fault” is that?
So math has been labeled “White”. So let’s do without math. It will be interesting next April. We can turn in our tax “returns” with creative math. Definitely non-White math.
Will the irs allow the new math?
Americans have issue with arithmetic
They will never nor ever have mastered math
I think welfare checks are Racist and they should stop them all.
The “racist” math in use throughout the world keeps airplanes from plunging uncontrollably out of the sky and prevents bridges from collapsing and our houses from falling down upon us and killing us while we are asleep inside.
If those catastrophes take place, is it the fault of white people?
Are we to switch to “black” math where there are no objective, absolute answers?
Because certain minority students cannot do basic math, we have to do away with basic math.
I look forward to seeing a house built by a contractor with no “racist” math skills.
I am excited to watch how vehicle brakes may work under this new imperative for non-racist math.
God help us when these math-challenged morons become adult engineers and builders of things.
‘If math is racist, SO IS COUNTING MONEY, my dear Democrat friend!”
When stuff starts to fail as we go third world, the disasters will all be “unexpected”.
:-(
Those who can’t compete on productivity have figured out how to disqualify winners. They think having the trophy will put food on the table. Cargo cult.
That’s why they want to eliminate money.
Yes, they literally do.
Taking down intelligent citizens was done in China, it was done in Russia, it was done it North Korea and it's being attempted here.
Don't buy their commie bullshit. STUPID PEOPLE ARE EASIER TO CONTROL...COMMIES KNOW THAT...
“Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.”
― George Orwell, 1984
It’s not aptitude for basic arithmetic. It’s cultural, the mainstreaming of “Dumb is Kewl”, which really took off around the time of the start of MTV.
Orwell was dying of tuberculosis while finishing 1984 ... he was aware of how important the book was - almost like he knew totalitarian time changers wanted him dead before the book was completed.
Well, not surprising that last week it was published that Apple Pie id racists. Why? Because when the white folks were moving west to settle the Midwest, they planted lots of apple trees for future white settlers to eat.
Apples were not planted to eat.
They were planted to make cider.....................
I summoned the owner and suggested he count her drawer. Fortunately, he is an older man, and I had been a frequent customer there. Either he 1) believed me, or 2) had trouble with that cashier before; he just looked at her and said, "Give her a $10."
Anything which makes bad performance hard to conceal, is inherently racist.
Selected one, went over to 20-something gal working the register who rang it up and said I owed $3.00.
Handed her a $5 bill. She then picked up a calculator to compute my change and handed me $2. Look on my face must've prompted her to tell me she always uses a calculator to be sure. Wish I was making this up.
It's worse than we think.
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