Posted on 05/12/2022 4:34:53 PM PDT by artichokegrower
“Like the return of the undead, woke math has come back to haunt California’s classrooms and make it even harder for the state’s struggling students to receive a quality education,” Lance Izumi, Senior Director of the Center for Education at the Pacific Research Institute writes at Townhall.com this week.
(Excerpt) Read more at californiaglobe.com ...
The only teaching therapy I received from the nuns at the Catholic school I attended was to be whacked on the head with a pointer.
I suspect the average teacher is math illiterate, and thats why they don’t think its necessary.
And why teach it, when you can just hire mathematicians from China to run your calcs for you?
Actually, far from being racist, for any kid trapped in bad neighborhoods and bad schools, math is your ticket out. Actually, a good welding program can be your ticket out too. A school system that understands what its purpose is can set these kids free, but it prefers to leave them in bondage.
I’m sure you’ll find this interesting!
Five
One to change the lightbulb and four to argue if the one changing it is a he, she, they, or it.
"A quality education" is a "Thinking White" concept.
Can you do privilege calculus?
The answer is white males, for creating an oppressive environment.
I wouldn't doubt if it was the majority of teachers. When I was in college, the people who could cut the math in engineering, comp sci, and mathematics, became Math Ed majors. Those that couldn't cut that became El Ed majors. I seriously never met an education major when I was in college that had an above average IQ or had the motivation to work his ass off to keep up with people that had real majors.
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“math is your ticket out. Actually, a good welding program can be your ticket out too.”
Amen.
It’s a ticket out for those with brains. Only those.
Even welders.
A few times over the years I was asked to tutor various freinds kids in algebra, etc. I would always first ask how the teacher explained how to do x y or z, and was utterly astonished at how stupid their teachers were. Once I beat the teachers explanation out of them I would eventually get that skeptical expression on their face when they realize “it can’t possibly be that simple”…and yes it was that simple
I think a teaching degree should be an add-on, to be obtained after you first get a real degree in a real discipline.
(Apologies to any teachers reading this post...)
Or maybe we should just dispense with teaching degrees altogether.
Glad my child never had to engage in such nonsense
Those who can do
Those who can’t teach
Those who can’t teach teach teachers to teach
Welders use math
Ding Ding Ding. We have a winner.
***Actually, a good welding program can be your ticket out too.***
Fifty years ago the company I worked for, a steel fabrication shop, got in on a government program in which ghetto teens and adults were hired in and taught the skills needed to work. They got paid by the company and the government.
Most were blacks, some whites and American Indians.
When their first government check came in, they all took off, including the whites, never to be seen again. Only the Indians stayed around and became a great welder!
We had an old joke about welders.
Why is a welder like a prostitute? they both cry for the same thing. More heat, more rod, more money!
By the way, I am a welder.
I remember those days. Told Sister I was really sick and needed to go to the restroom to throw up. Of course, she said no. Of course, I threw up all over my desk. Of course, she made me sit in it the rest of the day and wouldn’t let the janitor clean it up. I was home the rest of the week and when I returned to class, she made me chip the dried vomit off my desk. BTW, I was 6 years old and in first grade.
More importantly, what is the light’s gender?
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