Posted on 09/06/2025 7:13:36 AM PDT by thegagline
The billionaire heiress who recently donated $250,000 to a super PAC supporting socialist Zohran Mamdani’s NYC mayoral campaign is bankrolling a national push to bring “woke math” into public schools — a twisted bid to turn kids into socialist revolutionaries, critics told The Post.
Philanthropist Liz Simons,daughter of late hedge-fund billionaire Jim Simons, oversees a foundation with a near-billion-dollar endowment trashing traditional race-neutral math in favor of race-obsessed leftist lessons inserting social justice principles into many aspects of students’ studies.
This approach, embraced in states like California but rejected in Florida, include thrusting racial and LGBTQ themes into previously straightforward lesson plans.
For instance, a lesson on how to use graphs to perform math could take a huge detour with teachers trying to drive home the point that there’s income disparity between white Americans and people of color. Mamdani’s education platform includes halting charter school growth, expanding universal pre-K, and eliminating selective admissions standards for middle schools to help desegregate classrooms.
Woke math lowers the bar without helping black students. While test results show gains among black and Hispanic students, the gap with Asian and white students hasn’t closed. We hope Mamdani doesn’t undo progress.”
“This megadonor may impact his chancellor choice or NYC’s math curriculum,” she said.
Woke lessons teach black students more about “how to be political activists” than actual math, insisted Jean Hahn, a public-school parent in Queens.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
What is with people like Liz Simons, George Soros, Merrick Garland, Alejando Mayorkas, Norm Eisen, Randi Weingarten, Jamie Raskin etc etc all hellbent on destroying this country? They seem to have a special animus towards white Christians.
Just like a racist cannot do anything that is not tainted by his racism, a wokie cannot do anything......
Anything. Period.
Where is General Augusto Pinochet when we need him?!
Mamdani financier, “Philanthropist” Liz Simons,
oversees a near-billion-dollar endowment,
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Oregon Eliminates Educational Standards
Annually Oregonians need to be reminded students are no longer required to demonstrate skills in reading, writing, and math. Until 2026, an Oregon high school diploma no longer points to academic achievement, but only participation in a system with undefined parameters. The legislators, school districts, and the governor supporting Senate Bill 744 saw that this “will benefit Oregon’s Black, Latino, Latina, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Tribal, and students of color”.
The state adopted the position held by many 19th century abolitionists. When I read Fredrick Douglass’ autobiographies, one passage always stays with me. After speaking to an abolitionist audience, Douglass considered the evening a great success, because he concluded his talk by believing these people were convinced, he was equally human with them.
He mentioned this as a significant event, because many supporters of black freedom questioned whether these people were fully human. If educators would treat minorities as individuals, programs would allow opportunities for achievement commensurate with those they see for white students.
I remember Dr. Martin Luther King saying, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character…..little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.”
To me, these men’s understanding of brotherhood and individual value proves more meaningful than perceptions of racial or ethnic inferiority.
Oregon just dropped all graduation standards, failing all of its students in the name of ‘equity’
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/4288044-oregon-just-dropped-all-graduation-standards-failing-all-of-its-students-in-the-name-of-equity/
Oregon just dropped all graduation standards, failing all of its students in the name of ‘equity’
OMG
Chapter one: looting = free.
self hating Jews, millions of them. Please please abuse me I deserve it says Simons, Take my money, the pogroms in the CCCP were not enough. PS F your Jesus
Liberal Jews (which is most of them) hate America, the West, White People and Christians more than they care about themselves.
example word problem of woke math:
if jevon buys 80 dime bags from latisha for $24 each, and then sells 48 bags for $53 each, but uses up 12 bags for himself, has jevon made a profit yet, and if so, how much?
I wonder if these people are hurting black people on purpose or are they so stupid they think they are helping them by infantalizing them?
Nobody thinks math is racist when they are counting their change.
“self hating Jews, millions of them. Please please abuse me I deserve it says Simons, Take my money, the pogroms in the CCCP were not enough.”
I keep wondering, what is the source of such seemingly sick, self destructive and irrational behavior?
Keep ‘em poor, keep ‘em stupid, keep ‘em voting Democrat.
There are many articles and lectures from traditional Jewish sources explaining the ‘erev rav’.
https://torah.org/torah-portion/perceptions-5759-beshalach/
sorry (or maybe not so sorry) I don’t know all the people on your list
but
when a person adopts a far leftist/communist/nazi/”progressive” stance, it is often in place of any Christian or Jewish faith ... it fills their ‘belief and values’ voids
and therefore, they tend to be most or all of these things,
Anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-Jewish, anti=basic moral principles, anti-life, anti- Bill of Rights... etcetera.
Along with the opposing stances like: pro-Open Borders, pro-”gun control,” pro-IslamoNazi terrorists including “PA” Abbas, Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood, AlQaida, ISIS, Hootie, Hezballah, Taliband, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, etcetera and etcetera
It is consistent, just contrary to traditional American values or moral principles.
John Adams, without knowing communism or nazism (though he was well studied in history and knew the bloody French revolution), sounded prescient when he said that our US Constitution is designed for a moral and religious people and would fail with any other kind of society.
Can Capitalism survive without Socialism?
Explain
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