Posted on 07/18/2023 9:49:22 AM PDT by massmike
A school district in Massachusetts has been slowly phasing algebra 1 out of its middle-school curriculum because the advanced math classes were predominantly taken by white and Asian students. Now, some area parents are considering placing their child in a private school or a homeschooling program to ensure that they are adequately prepared for high school mathematics.
Since 2017, Cambridge Public Schools has been slowly moving away from placing middle school students into "grade-level" or "accelerated" math classes since the "grade-level" courses were filled with black and Hispanic students, while the "accelerated" courses had mostly white and Asian students. District officials claim that the changes are designed to create better equity.
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Parents who have their kids in publik skrewls because they can’t afford to educate them any other way need to band together.
There are lots of retired teachers and others who could do a very good job teaching their kids.
Parents need money and a plan.
But first they need to organize.
And they need to do it fast.
What is needed is Decelerated classes - stuff today’s youts can really use, like Hoopty Jackin, Meth Cookin, and Cap Poppin.
DISGUSTED to what is being done to achievers!!!!
Equity: no one can be smarter than the dumbest student.
Algebra is the introduction to abstract reasoning.
For IQ 85 or less - and we have urban school districts where the average is 75 - this is a meaningless exercise. Even if you can train these students to answer questions correctly with a lot of prep, change the problem by 5% and they are lost.
Forcing algebra - or any real high school level work - on a kid with an IQ of 80 is naked cruelty. And forcing it on a group of physically mature individuals, all of whom have IQs of 85 or below, is a formula for disaster.
My kids’ middle school used to accelerate to algebra during the school year, but then changed to only being allowed to do that via summer school that would have taken up the entire summer. So we paid for an online, school year option instead for our 4th teen to get to Calculus by senior year. Shouldn’t have had to do that.
After making all the kids take Algebra I in 8th gradem, my kids school switched to having 8th grade math/Algebra as separate options. The 8th grade math option was an option for those who were going to struggle in Algebra.
Harvard had better start getting some Administrators who have an IQ higher than an Igloo room temp.
This is serious, pretty soon there will be NO HARVARD, and no one will be sad about it.
7th: Algebra I 8th: Geometry 9th: Algebra II 10th:Math Concepts/Pre-Calc/Trigonometry 11th:Calc AB (AP) 12th:Calc CDThat's a normal/average sequence. I would start bright kids on Algebra I in 5th or 6th grade for --it's a good way to solidify basic arithmetic. Khan (and other websites) will help you do it for you, for free.
The question is "What do we do about it?".
We have a corrupt traitor in the WH, via an openly stolen election, who is, openly, destroying the Republic and our elected Republican congresscritters refuse to stop him.
The DOJ has become nothing more than the STASI, intent on silencing dissension, crushing opposition and punishing those who disagree.
Ask Ashley Babbit, Roseanne Boyland, Stewart Rhodes and Jeremy Brown.
I'm not being argumentative, but, considering that we will never have another fair election, what do we do?
We’re Rednecks.
In New York they do not require the ‘teachers’ to be proficient in the subject they ‘teach’. In Calif and elsewhere the kids barely can read and write let alone do math.
I see what you did there! without math no one understands what a common denominator is so they can’t see it coming. brilliantly played.
I’d like to meet the mom that taught him Differential Equations, or even Calculus 3.
FYI, linear algebra is fun, Differential Equations is not.
If you do not know A^2 + B^2 = C^2 you are not a civilized human. Also learn how to spell Algebra.
The most important algebra and geometry do is teach systematic logical thinking. No emotion need apply! For many people it will be the only times in their lives they’ll be exposed to that. They don’t have to make A’s in it; end up being mathematicians. They do need to be forced at least once in their lives to think in such a focused way.
No, just lower the standards for the advancement of DEI. The “E” has nothing to do with Education.
Don’t be a jerk.
Actually I preferred Diff EQ to Linear Algebra. I found Linear Algebra to be tedious!
Wouldn’t it be best just to segregate the schools?
Good answer.
I attended a segregated school for 12 years and did just fine.
I never met a black person until I enlisted. But I’m just an old White dude.
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