Posted on 08/06/2022 11:56:55 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) is planning to spend over $2 million on a new math curriculum that emphasizes “ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity.”
First reported by the Washington Free Beacon, a Minneapolis school board meeting in mid-June included a presentation on the new K-5 math curriculum for the upcoming 2022-23 school year.
According to two contracts with the Math Learning Center, Minneapolis Public Schools will spend up to $1.15 million on the “diverse” math curriculum for kindergartners through second-graders, and another $1.03 million on the curriculum for third through fifth-graders, totaling $2.18 million.
The presentation stated that a “steering committee” on the Minneapolis K-12 math curriculum was specifically looking for materials that would “contribute to an understanding of ethnic, racial and cultural diversity representative of the student demographics in MPS” and “cultural and linguistically-responsive materials that differentiate for students of all abilities and backgrounds.”
Data cited in the presentation showed that Minneapolis teachers felt students seemed more “engaged with” and “excited about” the “diversity” math curriculum than other options on the table. The data was collected during a pilot implementation of each curriculum.
Roughly 70% of the teachers surveyed “agreed or strongly agreed” that student engagement and excitement was highest with the “diversity” curriculum, which was unanimously approved by the steering committee for the 2022-23 school year.
Per the Free Beacon, Superintendent Ed Graff said during the meeting that emphasizing diversity in math instruction has been a “shared priority for a number of years.”
Back in February, the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) proposed new academic standards that emphasized Native American “representations” in public school math curricula.
According to an MDE document, public school math should “make sense and persevere in mathematical problem-solving experiences that are connected to place, story, cultural practices, language, and perspectives relevant to historical and contemporary Dakota and Anishinaabe communities.”
Only 35% of students in Minneapolis are meeting or exceeding math standards, according to the Minnesota Department of Education.
These people are stealing from us and openly mocking us. And they’ve used “diversity” as their battering ram.
I’m glad they’re taking steps to address the inherent racism of mathematics.
“Only 35% of students in Minneapolis are meeting or exceeding math standards,”
Well, the educators up there have done such a good job so far I’m sure we can trust them with this new ‘diversity’ math.
Extra credit: List three reasons why ocean exploration is impossible.
Its just another excuse for $$$ for local corruption and a bloated, woke bureaucracy.
To be fair, I think Non-diverse type people should be trained on how to dance.
Digits be rassist.
Retired teacher. Surveys of teachers are not reliable because we know that the administration can see how you respond. So you like.
This new math curriculum sounds completely stupid. The people selling it are celebrating at the stupidity of the buyers.
It'll be "Yo! 2 and 2 be wad I sayahbe, muffa!"
Getting the right answer is acting white. Remember that from the aa smithsonian display they had to take down.
the 2+2=4 has seen its last days...
If they can get us to believe 2 + 2 = 5 they can get us to do anything they tell us to do.
If they can get us to believe a man can change into a woman and a woman can change into a man they can get us to do anything they tell us to do.
2 + 2 = 5 - Radiohead
Are you such a dreamer
To put the world to rights?
I’ll stay home forever
Where two and two always makes up five
I’ll lay down the tracks
Sandbag and hide
January has April’s showers
And two and two always makes up five
It’s the devil’s way now
There is no way out
You can scream and you can shout
It is too late now
Because you have not been
Payin’ attention
Payin’ attention
Payin’ attention
Payin’ attention
You have not been paying attention
Payin’ attention
Payin’ attention
Payin’ attention
You have not been paying attention
Payin’ attention
Payin’ attention
Payin’ attention
You have not been paying attention
Payin’ attention
Payin’ attention
Payin’ attention oohh
I try to sing along
But the music’s all wrong
‘Cause I’m not
‘Cause I’m not
I swat ‘em like flies
But like flies the buggers
Keep coming back
And not
But I’m not
All hail to the thief
All hail to the thief
But I’m not
But I’m not
But I’m not
But I’m not
Don’t question my authority or put me in a box
‘Cause I’m not
‘Cause I’m not
Oh go and tell the king
That the sky is falling in
But it’s not
But it’s not
But it’s not
Maybe not
Maybe not
Lie
“Only 35% of students in Minneapolis are meeting or exceeding math standards, according to the Minnesota Department of Education.”
After this, that number will go down to 20%.
“Only 35% of students in Minneapolis are meeting or exceeding math standards,”
What about the other 60%?
If 10 out of 100 rioters clean out the Hood electronics store how many flat screen TVs are left to loot the next day?
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On top of the insanity of linguistically responsive math and the like, $2M????? These government contracts are just ridiculously over-priced.
O don’t think we ever really got out of the $650 toilet seats, and I bet they are now adjusted for inflation.
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