Posted on 03/28/2022 12:56:54 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
Iowa City Community School District offers teacher trainings in “ethnomathematics” and queer “Herstory,” according to documents obtained by Parents Defending Education (PDE).
“Ethnomathematics: The Study of Math as a Cultural Activity,” is the name of the teacher training session at ICCSD where “educators will approach the mathematics classroom as ethnographers, exploring the origins of our current practices and questioning the hierarchies they produce.”
“Teachers do not need to pretend to be ethnographers and study math through a cultural lens,” PDE Director of Outreach Erika Sanzi said in a statement. “They need to be able to teach students the math they need to know to pursue and succeed in the future whether in higher ed and/or career paths that require that knowledge.”
Another teacher training course offered by ICCSD called “WE ARE EVERYWHERE: Paris is Burning” highlights “Protest, Power, and Pride in Queer History and culture.”
“Learners will explore often forgotten Herstory and ideas of intersectionality and discuss topics of Race, Sexuality, Class, and Gender discussion focusing on LGBTQIA+,” it says, “through the eyes of New York City’s African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene.”
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“herstory” makes me want to vomit.
The answer: Homeschool your kids
I just...I just...can't.
This country is finished.
Iowa City..20 square miles surrounded by reality.
When I was a kid, “ethnomathmatics” and “herstory” were punchlines to a heck of a lot of good jokes.
Ebonics all began in San Fransisco 20 years ago.
It was rejected even by SF residents.
Time for Iowa to take back their state.
https://uproxx.com/filmdrunk/terrence-howard-math-theory/
"So, since our teachers never passed math, we can't expect them to teach it. Instead of jobs in engineering, architecture or medicine, we will prepare our children to be baristas or community activists."
Math is math, anything else is political.
Black people can't pass math tests = racism.
Don’t forget “gender-neutral biology” (affectionately referred to as “tranny-sci”).
So does TWISTED MATH.
I have done accounting since I was 17-hired out of high school by Kroger Divisional office.
At 82, still doing accounting, have ONE client still—have done his books for 52 years.
NO person with a bank account/a mortgage/a car payment can do TWISTED MATH.
NO business with Accounts payable/Accounts receivable/ payroll/ rent to pay can operate with TWISTED MATH.
Bad enough that kids are poorly prepared for going out on their own today. This will only confuse them further.
EVERY TAXPAYING member of that school district should join a class action suit against the board & teachers.
Maybe Iowa is thinking of the new quantum math where 2 + 2 = 4...and 2 + 2 = 5 at the same time if you observe it.
Fixed it.
Iowa? You’d think they’d be more interested in teaching cornhole than herstory..
In any red state you get pockets of liberalism, often concurrent with colleges and universities. Austin Texas as an example.
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