The teachers probably aren’t qualified or intelligent enough to teach beyond that level.
This is right up there with the Obama initiative to generate “certificates” to help with the employment of junior college students. You can paper the situation any way you want; you can call arithmetic calculus, but it isn’t a civil rights issue. The NEA would gladly have its teachers run the classes in question if the student body at these schools could take them.
This isn’t surprising, but it says a lot.
Why do you need algebra to spend your life hoeing and jiving.
Abolish public schools altogether. The local governments (townships) would meet the education needs of the parents, who would now have a lot more say in the education of their kids. Right now parents are the enemy to the gubmint indoctrination centers we call public schools.
This is a very strong argument for school vouchers. Public Schools are VA Hospitals.
Not too many teachers with good math skills would choose a war zone over a calmer suburban school.
Schools have long had the cart well out in front of the horse.
So-called Advanced Placement and Honors programs are, in reality, those classes beyond Algebra I that used to be part of the core curriculum. They provide a convenient bragging point for teachers, schools and students so nobody is willing to upset the apple cart. They also provide cover for grade inflation. Now students get meaningless GPAs of 4.51798 to go with their meaningless diplomas - how fitting.
Don’t get me started on all the ‘Gifted’ programs popping up like mushrooms. Er, no. Mozart was gifted. Newton was gifted. Little Timmy is not gifted because he lucked into getting 20 vocabulary words correct.
Math test for high schools located in Detroit, South-Central Los Angeles and other Democratic strongholds:
1. Duane has an AK47 with a 30 round clip. If he misses 6 out of 10 shots and shoots 13 times at each drive by shooting, how many drive by shootings can he attempt before he has to reload?
2. If Jose has 2 ounces of cocaine and he sells an 8 ball to Jackson for $320 and 2 grams to Billy for $85 per gram, what is the street value of the balance of the cocaine if he doesn’t cut it?
3. Rufus is pimping for 3 girls. If the price is $65 for each trick, how many tricks will each girl have to turn so Rufus can pay for his $800 per day crack habit?
4. Jarome wants to cut his 1/2 pound of Heroin to make 20% more profit. How many ounces of cut will he need?
5. Willie gets $200 for stealing a BMW, $50 for a Chevy and $100 for a 4x4. If he has stolen 2 BMW’s and 3 4x4’s, how many Chevy’s will he have to steal to make $800?
6. Raoul is in prison for 6 years for murder. He got $10,000 for the hit. If his common law wife is spending $100 per month, how much money will he have left when he gets out of prison and how many years will he get for killing the bitch that spent his money?
7. If the average spray paint can covers 22 square feet and the average letter is 3 square feet, how many letters can a tagger spray with 3 cans of paint?
8. Hector knocked up 6 girls in his gang. There are 27 girls in the gang. What percentage of the girls in the gang has Hector knocked up?
If your schools use these two curiculums, fight it now. Should we be surprised these come from Chicago?
Math Education: An Inconvenient Truth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr1qee-bTZI
A country of morons but good union workers.
Is this the type of Algebra where x=anything you want it to?
I gave my chemistry class a table contaning two variables and asked them to solve for a specific Y value using Y = mX +B. Only one of my students knew how to solve the problem.
Don’t the cash register keys at McDonalds, KFC and Subway have a picture of the food item on them? What math is required to do that?
And considering the large number of illegitimate children the condoms on cucumber classes are not too well represented either.
Agreed.
The fundamental problem is the 75% illegitimacy rate among minorities.
Schools need a lot of improvement, but can’t fix what the Great Society destroyed: the black family.
Parents have a voice if they are not happy with Jr.’s schooling. Today’s parents don’t care.