Posted on 07/21/2017 2:07:45 PM PDT by TigerClaws
I’m all for cancelling it in college. It is supposed to be taught in high school!!!
Whenever the anti-American left can’t justify their BS they resort to calling it a ‘civil rights issue’.
Problem is most of us don’t listen to that anymore.
Time for the satanic left to find a new schtick.
Bull crap!
A janitor tweeted that he uses ALGEBRA every day!
I had it in ninth grade..
Looks like college is a waste of money and time..
unless you take science and engineering
Hell I went to college in 1960 it was a waste of time then...
The courses I needed should have taken a year..
This is precisely what President Dubya meant when he described "the soft bigotry of low expectations.".
Students desperately need to learn self-discipline and responsibility and achievement.
And, a successful completion of college algebra just might open some doors and give an earned feeling of accomplishment to those students who need it most.
Who would be the biggest losers if college algebra were eliminated (or diluted into oblivion)?
Underachieving minorities.
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Didn’t they have to pass Algebra in High School? We need to be increasing technical courses in high school and college not reducing them. Throw in some Calculus too. ha ha
The technical engineering and design jobs in this country are being turned over to immigrant foreigners.
For leftists using “a civil rights issue” means “you lose, debate over.”
They think all they have to say are those magic words and all discussion ends.
Saw it with ‘gay marriage.’ Seeing it with this nonsense.
FWIW, I wrote a Letter to the Editor of the NCTM. I stated that Math Class is SUPPOSED to be tough and we should be praising Barbie for saying Math Class is Tough. What's she supposed to say "choosing the right eye shadow is tough?" Believe it or not, the journal didn't want to print the letter. Connections to the editorial board had to encourage them. Thus, my letter defending Barbie taking a tough math class was printed.
You can't make this stuff up. It was one of my finest funny moments!
Let’s cancel anything and everything that makes certain groups uncomfortable. To hell with reality! Reality sucks. /s
> The chancellor of Californias community college system said he wants to abolish the college algebra requirement... <
The word “algebra” comes from the Arabic “al-jabr”, meaning “reunion of broken parts”. I’m guessing that the chancellor is a filthy racist who hates Arabs.
We wants us ALLLLLL that tuition $$$$$$$$$$$$$!!!!!
Ferget about weather or not the “students” know—or CAN LEARN—anything at all. That’s not important at all and most likely is just whitey’s discriminationalism!!!
SHOW US THE MUNNNIEEE!!!
LOL correct!
I am appalled how many classes in “Int. algebra” there are in the CC I tutor for. The bulk of our math tutees are algebra.
Indeed, algebra is remedial in college. They should be beyond that.
I could see not requiring calculus, but I algebra is so useful, I can’t see giving anyone a college diploma if they can’ pass algebra.
Without IQ scores, standards for the necessary skills went down and students get ahead of themselves in Math. Add to that, too much reward is given for "group participation" and other stuff that can circumvent Math skills. For many of these CC students to be able to get up to speed, they'd have to start filling in the gaps starting with elementary school math. The teachers and students are all too lazy and unmotivated to do that. JMHO
Brawndo. It’s got what plants crave.
No math engineers....
It is supposed to be taught in high school
Yup!
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