Posted on 12/07/2021 3:04:44 PM PST by blam
An open letter from more than 1,200 California academics and teachers is protesting the state’s proposed K-12 math curriculum, which the signatories state amounts to “an endless river of new pedagogical fads that effectively distort and displace actual math.”
Signatories of Independent Institute’s “Open Letter to Replace the Proposed New California Math Curriculum Framework” include 900 academics, at 67 California colleges and in universities, who assert the state is “on the verge of politicizing K-12 math in a potentially disastrous way.”
The letter sends a similar warning as another from hundreds of the nation’s top scientists and mathematicians that expresses “alarm” at what the signers say are the likely devastating consequences of California’s “Equitable Math” framework that prioritizes social justice ideology over actual math.
Hundreds of America’s top scientists and mathematicians have released an open letter in which they express “alarm” at the likely disastrous consequences of woke K-12 math curricula such as the “Equitable Math’ framework proposed in California. https://t.co/zBQkcuHGMU
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) December 7, 2021
The proposed curriculum “is presented as a step toward social justice and racial equity, but its effect would be the opposite—to rob all Californians, especially the poorest and most vulnerable, who always suffer most when schools fail to teach their students,” states the Independent Institute’s open letter.
“As textbooks and other teaching materials approved by the State would have to follow this framework and since teachers are expected to use it as a guide, its potential to steal a promising future from our children is enormous,” the signatories warn, adding the framework’s creators have attempted to “build a mathless Brave New World on a foundation of unsound ideology.”
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When these kids become adults and it's discovered that they don't know and can't do anything laws will be passed to force you to hire them anyway.
In the name of social justice.
Getting rid of math.
Getting rid of grammar.
Getting rid of history.
Anyone see a pattern?
My conclusion is a combination of all, depending on the politician.
It takes a libtard to raise an idiot 🤪
California’s “Equitable Math” framework that prioritizes social justice ideology over actual math.
Since CA purchases a lot of books they have a huge influence on school books nationwide.
2 plus 2 equals 5 and five is racsis
Don’t know much about history
Don’t know much biology...
It takes a village of libtards to raise a idiot
Looks like they found something else wypipo are supreme at
Earlier example of this pattern in action:
"Polish children only need to know how to read and write a simple letter, count up to 500, and to obey their German masters." - Heinrich Himmler, 1940.
Do you want to fly a plane designed by a woke engineer?
You missed Getting rid of English.
Nope. #1 is (truly) a communist long-game plot to defeat the West and install global communism.
All the others on your list are nothing but enablers, useful idiots, and corruptocrats.
I am not kidding about the communist plot one bit. It’s been a century-long project and it is nearing completion aided and abetted by current and former communist states bent on world domination. Their goal of global domination and control has not changed one iota in the past 100 years.
“Total Insanity.”
No, sorry, nothing ‘insane’, just the next logical step in their long-term plan to take down the country.
Makes PERFECT sense to me, as I don’t assign the Left the same value system that I have (which is that America be #1 in the world).
Of course it will. That’s the entire point of it.
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From a pdf doc at equity dot org:
1. Recognize the ways that communities of color engage in mathematics and problem solving in their everyday lives.
2. Teach that mathematics can help solve problems affecting students’ communities. Model the use of math as a solution to their immediate problems, needs, or desires.
3. Identify and challenge the ways that math is used to uphold capitalist, imperialist, and racist views.
4. Teach the value of math as both an abstract concept and as a useful everyday tool.
5. Expose students to examples of people who have used math as resistance. Provide learning opportunities that use
math as resistance.
This came from page 10 or 12. I numbered the points to make it easier to say: check out numbers 3 and 5.
Insanity. There are good ideas in here (some from the early 1960s!) but then you run into the thorns among the roses...
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