[Think free or die]

" As a former HS math teacher I can't begin to imagine how one would work such into a math curriculum."

The math curriculum in our elementary school isn't labelled as active anti-racist, but political correctness is quite evident. I flipped through a couple of the textbooks at the beginning of the year and took particular note of the illustrations. Each chapter had one or two pages which showed students applying the new skill or profiled a mathemetician or scientist for them to emulate. The most under-represented group by far were white men or boys. It was quite dramatic. I counted the illustrations, and I think I came up with about 10% - hardly a reflection of reality or proportional representation in the population. The word problems are another area where PC concepts play out.

[Ignatius J Reilly]

"I counted the illustrations, and I think I came up with about 10% - hardly a reflection of reality or proportional representation in the population"

Now that would be a good practical application of statistical methods for students right there.

I have no problem with showing the diversity of our culture through pictures in the books and/or word problems, it should however be an accurate representation of society, not skewed. I also think school should NEVER be a place of any sort of discriminatory practice or bias. However some of this just goes too far, as if teaching math wasn't difficult enough.