Posted on 02/16/2021 10:07:42 AM PST by blam
The Oregon Department of Education is seeking to root out white supremacy in mathematics, manifested by emphasis on “getting the right answer” and making students “show their work.”
As reported Monday by the attentive folks at the College Fix, Oregon’s progressive Department of Education has furnished educators with an 82-page training manual titled “A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction: Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction.”
The education department mailed the manual to teachers as part of Black History Month.
The manual enumerates signs of “white supremacy culture in the mathematics classroom,” which include a focus on “getting the right answer,” an emphasis on “real-world math,” teaching math in a “linear fashion,” students being required to “show their work,” and grading students based on their demonstrated knowledge of the material.
“In order to embody antiracist math education, teachers must engage in critical praxis that interrogates the ways in which they perpetuate white supremacy culture in their own classrooms, and develop a plan toward antiracist math education to address issues of equity for Black, Latinx, and multilingual students,” the manual declares.
The unavoidably racist and thoroughly demeaning implication is that black students are not capable of “showing their work” or “getting the right answers,” and so teachers must lower the academic bar or remove it altogether.
An impartial observer might even suggest that assuming that students of color are incapable of competing on a level playing field is a manifestation of the deepest form of “white supremacy.”
What the manual never succeeds in explaining is how dumbing down mathematics will magically eliminate “mathematical inequity,” a proposal that is counterintuitive.
It was not long ago that literature and film celebrated heroic educators who, against all odds, challenged their students to rise above their situations and achieve academic success.
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All this will do is destroy the education of those students who want to be 'correctly' educated.
Get your kids out of these cess pool public education facilities.
YHGTBSM!
only abouth the 10th time this has been posted..
I think this is really great.
My kid is only a junior in high school and is now almost finished with the AP Calculus series. By the time he graduates, he should have the entire undergrad Engineering math requirement behind him. He’s even had an intro to Differential Equations.
He should have NO competition from these morons. If the beaming simpletons of Oregon want to teach their spawn MathBonics, let them. They can be the losers of the game while the hard working kids move up and on.
2+2=5
Giving teachers a paycheck is White Supremacy.
Does white supremacy have an opposite, or antithesis?
If so, would it be black inferiority?
Asking for a friend.
The reason math is “racist” is that it cannot be faked like a softer subject.
Until now, I suppose.
I didn’t think this was possible to do in a hard science or engineering, but they’ve done it. There is going to be a whole generation of complete incompetents.
So......Building pyramids, the Great Wall of China, the Aztec and Inca kingdoms, and all the civilizations that were built over the last 10,000 years were all racists, white racists. All because they used “White Supremacy Math” that came from Africa, Egypt, Syria, Babylon, Persia, China, Europe, and India.....
Dear God, who are these “educators” who don’t have a clue????
The problem is that affirmative action hiring practices may have these mathematics ignoramuses designing bridges, flying airplanes, and even becoming air traffic controllers!
Leftist is dangerous for children and other living things.
I can.
Slippery slopes are slippery. After they tried to teach ‘Ebonics’ and black revisionist history in schools, what did people expect?
I have reached a state where I think that “Slippery Slope” should no be considered a logical fallacy but a perfectly valid point to argue from.
And still....you wasted your time to interrupt.
Dude, I've been preaching that message for 26 years. These people just won't listen to me. Something to do with not being able to scrape by without two incomes or something. I'm assuming no incomes isn't going to work either.
Using this formula will only give Pakistani and Indian students a clear advantage for jobs in Oregon, because the residents will not long know how to do simple math. This “educator” needs an education
No Child Left Behind - Hold them all back
If your kids are enrolled in Public Schools, you must assume they are getting nothing of value and it is up to you to ensure they have the tools necessary to excel in life.
As reported Monday by the attentive folks at the College Fix, Oregon’s progressive Department of Education has furnished educators with an 82-page training manual titled “A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction...
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I want these educators to fly on an aircraft designed using equitable math.
Is your kid black or some other protected race?
Then he could very well get bumped in favor of a minority student with more diverse ‘life experiences.’
After all, merit is racist, too.
Making engineers show structural proof of their buildings is white supremacy.
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