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California Reconsiders Math 'Social Justice' Curriculum Overhaul Following Opposition
Newsmax ^ | 7-13=2021 | Brian Freeman

Posted on 07/13/2021 3:04:48 PM PDT by blam

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I wonder what they'll slip in instead.

The intent is to dumb down the bright (normal) kids that make consistently underperforming Black kids look bad.

Your kids are being abused and even punished for striving for excellence.

Union teachers do not care a whit about your children.

Get away from the public schools where they teach that merit is bad.

1 posted on 07/13/2021 3:04:48 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam

“Reconsider” is a nice way of saying, “Okay, we’ve heard your arguments. Now here’s our middle finger!”.


2 posted on 07/13/2021 3:09:20 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021)
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To: blam

The old, dead, white, European cisgendered, patriarchal Marx sayz 2+2=5.

That’s all you need to know.


3 posted on 07/13/2021 3:11:00 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: blam

If Ja’quellen has 2 babies with Romando, 1 baby with Da’ronde and 1 baby with Tajae, please separately calculate total monthly TANF and WIC payments she is entitled to.

For extra credit, calculate the medicaid income cut-off


4 posted on 07/13/2021 3:13:02 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: blam

The notion that demanding correct answers is somehow racist was the straw that broke this aging, decrepit camel’s back, and high time, too. Anyway, how can you steal an election if you can’t add?


5 posted on 07/13/2021 3:14:02 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: blam

One and One is “Whatever”


6 posted on 07/13/2021 3:16:05 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: blam

Higher math is not really needed by most folks.

If you can handle basic arithmetic and really basic algebra..
i.e. long division, percentages and simple linear equations it’s all good. (514/3.127) (12% of 32 =?) (5x -7 = 105) and so on...in a 4 year HS curriculum these simple math skills can be learned by nearly anyone...

But there should always be higher-level math courses avail for those who like math or those who plan on going into a tech field..

algebra2
geometry
trigonometry
calculus 1


7 posted on 07/13/2021 3:22:55 PM PDT by Bobalu (We're way past Republican versus Democrat.... This is Good versus Evil...)
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“that mathematics, over the years, has developed in a way that has excluded many students,”

Yeah. It has excluded the students who, for whatever reason, can’t get the right answer. Or those who never even bother to attempt the problem.


“Reconsider” is a nice way of saying: Uh, oh. They lifted the rock and the light-of-day is shining in on us. Let’s try this again when no one is looking.


“All students deserve powerful mathematics; we reject ideas of natural gifts and talents,”

That is such a nonsensical statement on so many levels. And, of course, it does not apply to sports.


8 posted on 07/13/2021 3:24:07 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: blam

I agree with ‘blame!


9 posted on 07/13/2021 3:26:13 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: blam

Math is the most objective of subjects. Regardless of race, religion, political beliefs or economic status, get the answers right and you get a good grade. The real agenda here is to conceal from parents and voters the abject failure of Teacher Union schools to teach math.


10 posted on 07/13/2021 3:37:11 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: PGR88

Nails it!


11 posted on 07/13/2021 3:37:15 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix circa 1984.)
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To: blam

Only an scumbag would use and apolitical subject like math instruction for children to l propaganda is little children instead of teaching the math. This is crap that countries like Iran, Saudi Arabia, and China do and those horrible countries should not be emulated.


12 posted on 07/13/2021 3:38:54 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( COVID lockdowns are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic )
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"Higher math is not really needed by most folks."

43 % of the residents of Detroit and New Orleans cannot even read or write.

Higher math, ha.

Innocent children are being denied a bright future because of DEMOCRATS.

13 posted on 07/13/2021 3:40:07 PM PDT by blam
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Fact: .The distribution of the Math gene among various populations is inversely proportional to the distribution of the Basketball gene among various populations.

14 posted on 07/13/2021 3:41:58 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ("Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration." — Thomas Edison)
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Higher math is not really needed by most folks.

No, it's not. If we were still willing to start tracking about fourth grade, most of the problem would disappear. We went off the rails when the "everybody needs to go to college" thing got loose, and when the race police with pigment meters decided that every classroom had to look like every other classroom.

15 posted on 07/13/2021 3:44:18 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: colorado tanker

The movie “Stand and Deliver” showed math can be taught to Hispanics ( and blacks).


16 posted on 07/13/2021 3:50:38 PM PDT by Mack the knife
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Or to musical ability.


17 posted on 07/13/2021 4:07:22 PM PDT by Marchmain (i vote pro-life)
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To: blam

Remember that the math now taught is the “new math” introduced in schools in the ‘60’s (and opposed by my father, a mathematician).


18 posted on 07/13/2021 4:09:06 PM PDT by Marchmain (i vote pro-life)
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To: blam

Union teachers aren’t teaching that merit is bad for the benefit of black children. A merit based economy is the last thing a govt teacher, or any govt “employee”, wants. They are doing it to defend their own rice bowls.


19 posted on 07/13/2021 4:20:03 PM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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OMG with these people. 2+2=4, etc. is A LAW OF THE UNIVERSE, it is not a concept or a construct or whatever else these morons think. All of math is about getting the right answer. Now, if you can’t do that, even if you try hard, well that is OK too. It doesn’t make you less of a person. It does mean you can’t be a doctor, or an engineer, or an accountant. But look, you can still be a lawyer and many other worthy professions.

I myself can’t do math well enough to do any of those jobs.

And you know what these white liberals are thinking - I’ll get my child a math tutor, my little Johnny or Sally will be fine.

But what if you’re some poor person (OF COLOR!) whose kid is great at math, but you could never afford a tutor. What about those kids? I’m sure there are SOME minority children in these classes now. To the Dems, et al. those kids are chopped liver. Their lives don’t matter because their lives don’t advance the “narrative” of oppression that is being used in an attempt to oppress ALL OF US.


20 posted on 07/13/2021 4:21:28 PM PDT by jocon307 (Dem party delenda est!)
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