Someone must have forgotten to tell you; your many years of experience and sacrifice do not count. Math and science have been shown to be subjects that black and Hispanic students have difficulty with because of racist teachers and subject matter. /s
Nearly all of my favorite instructors were math and science teachers, along with one creative writing teacher. But the creative writing teacher actually started out as an award winning math teacher, so maybe that doesn't count. My wife and I had a discussion recently where she said that she never took any summer school classes because she was always ahead of her classmates. I told her that I was always ahead of my classmates as well, but I took summer school math, science and chemistry classes for fun. I was definitely a nerd before that was cool.
> Math and science have been shown to be subjects that black and Hispanic students have difficulty with <
One reason that’s so (and maybe it’s the main reason) is the constant, unrelenting interference by school administrators.
I could give you 100 examples of that. Here’s just one. In our high school we have three levels of chemistry: general, honors, and gifted.
General chemistry is an overview course that minimizes the math. Honors chemistry is much more rigorous. And gifted chemistry is meant for the very top students. You can get college credit for taking that course.
Well, most black students in our school have poor math skills (for many reasons, not all of them their fault). So those students were placed in general chemistry.
Then some administrator noticed that the honors and gifted chemistry classes weren’t racially balanced. So more blacks were shoved into those courses. Those kids didn’t have the math skills, and didn’t want to be there in the first place. So those kids do very poorly. Lots of them fail.
So the administrators are now doing the worst possible thing. They are watering down the advanced courses.