someone with their qualifications would have no trouble finding a top-flight job in either the food service or housekeeping industries.It’s the end of Weapons of Math Instruction.
Next thing you know, CongressCritters won’t know how to balance a Budget.
Schools kill learning, but you’ve got to take some algebra even if you’re just going to work in the trades. Is geometry being dropped.
Texas and other states with large Latino populations have a major challenge on the education front. Latinos for the most part are not education oriented.
Lower standards just lead to lower standards.
I took Calculus in HS. And Trigonometry. And Geometry. I started with Algebra II. And I went on to college as a Liberal Arts major because my math skills were nothing special.
I disagree with lessening Math requirements. If anything, Texas school systems should require at least pre-calculus by graduation.
IMO, algebra is NOT a “vigorous” course. Maybe they mean “rigorous.” Maybe journalists could skip math and take more rigorous English classes before they get jobs in the industry.
Somebody has to flip our burgers.
Somebody has to flip our burgers.
Yikes. I took Algebra II at government school in Austin, 20+ years ago. Thanks, Mrs McGowan.
I heard gov Rick Perry promoting Texas’ education. Ditching Algebra 2, what next Chemistry?
I hope there are contingency plans to deal with the resulting deluge of useless eaters who will have a high proclivity to take to violence because they have nothing to lose...
Uh, Algebra IS vocational instruction. Both Algebra and Calcoolus (see "Stand and Deliver") help create an instinctive feel for how things work. That's all math is, after all, a codified symbolic way of describing how stuff works. So math in general IS vocational/life training unless Toyota and BASF want mindless button-pushing drones with no analytical ability. And if that's what they want, the State of Texas has no business delivering that.
I’ve spent all of my career in engineering related work and have never needed Black, Latino, Women or other related social education.
McDonalds cash registers have pictures of each product instead of numbers. So the graduates of these watered- down high schools will have a career path open to them.
someone with their qualifications would have no trouble finding a top-flight job in either the food service or housekeeping industries.Any average student should be able to handle algebra. While it may not be needed for students who are going into careers that don’t require college, it would still be a good idea for them to acquire some of the discipline and logical thinking skills that are developed by math classes.
If the argument is that math is a waste of time for these students, then couldn’t that be said of many other subjects as well? What career benefit do they get from science, history, social studies, geography, literature, gym, or foreign language class? There is no sense in having them take art or music unless they are going to become artists or musicians.
I think the real reason behind this is one of two things: 1. Educrats and social engineers don’t want evidence of their failures that show up as the poor scores of their students in subjects like math.
2. Educrats and social engineers want more time available to indoctrinate students with subjects that teach them how to vote (dem/socialist), how to “think” (that is, what politically correct liberal opinions they are supposed to have), how to defy their parents, how to be anti-religious, how to be gay and/or promiscuous, etc.
Algebra II is all the crap that nobody ever uses in the real world. Always wonder why anybody other than a mathematician would care.
It should be an”Elective”.In the meantime,how’s about teaching them”The Three R’s”???????????????????????
I believe Algebra II will still be required if a student wants to graduate with the highest degree plan.
They should have dropped 1/3 of geometry instead. The proofs section.