I have often wondered if they are getting rid of the advanced courses because the "teachers" don't understand the stuff themselves; and, cannot do advanced work themselves.
How do you teach when you don't understand the material yourself. I don't disagree with your "laziness" comment; but, I think that it might also be a problem with the teacher not knowing or understanding the material so that they can't teach it.
“I have often wondered if they are getting rid of the advanced courses because the “teachers” don’t understand the stuff themselves; and, cannot do advanced work themselves.”
No, they’ve already said why - they HATE the fact that primarily whites (which includes Asians) dominate those classes. So they spent the past 40 years twisting math around like a pretzel to see if they could find a formula that provided ‘equity’ for the ‘underrepresented’. They couldn’t, so now it’s Plan B, which is to simply get rid the classes that were causing the ‘stigmatizing’.
It ASTOUNDS me that any conservative thinks this crap can be ‘reformed’ or that they can ‘fight the system’, when we have 50 states, some super-bright red, that cannot do jack against this system. Either it is removed and replaced, or this crap (common core, CRT, fuzzy math, etc.) will continue unabated...and for parents, this entire public school system has to be SCRAPPED at the state level, but until then, there is literally NOTHING they can do other than keep their kids as far away from these animals as humanly possible (and yes, that might just mean NOT keeping up with the Jones).