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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Ironically, it IS White Supreemism. Lol
Wakandanometry
“ 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.”
Your boy has got to have risen to the ranks of grandmaster klansman by now if that’s the case! 😉
Just part of the plan to inaugurate national boarding schools run by the fed gov to ensure all students receive a quality education free from family and neighborhood prejudice, sexism, racism and divisive religious beliefs.
Other glaring examples...
Mom says take out the trash
Mom says clear your room
Mom says be home by midnight
Mom says eat your food
Friend says, pay me the money you borrowed
Teacher asks, do you have a pencil
Street crosswalks
Speed limits
Traffic signals
All four lanes on the local highway
Clouds
Lines at businesses
Credit firms that ask you to make payments on time
Having to cash a paycheck
And on and on it goes...
Serfs don’t need to do math, they only need to work and obey.
The public education bureaucracy is not about “education.”
Its about maintaining the bureaucracy and the benefit of its members. Politics comes second.
Remember, these are the enlightened people who believe in science, unlike us poor dumb rubes. /s /s /s
I want to remind them basketball is racist. To stop this, the black players must wear boxing gloves when they play.
They will still want his money. Also, the competition is from engineers in China, Korea, Germany, etc…. Fed.gov and Wall Street will make sure of that.
You’re both correct, un-Constitutional discrimination against white people will be a problem ( I refuse to use the soft term “affirmative action”).
He’s already angry about that, he has to contend with the idiots in classes now, and he knows they will get a leg up on him in school choice.
It all comes out in the wash though. If you can’t actually understand a vector partial differential equation then you won’t make it in Fluid Mechanics, because at least for now, at the university level, there’s no tolerance for not getting it.
So we just look for schools where it isn’t going to be an obvious factor. And most engineering / technical companies only have token programs - if you’re jets don’t work, they don’t get flown, and the company ceases to exist.
There are AA idiots in Engineering. They get sidelined very quickly once the work actually has to be done.
only abouth the 10th time this has been posted..
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Shame.
You are using a number, i.e., ‘10’
I note you did say ‘about’
This is the same logic that says if you defund the police, decriminalize most crimes, don't put violent people in jail, don't require cash bail while awaiting trial, you will reduce crime.
In Seattle they have decriminalized most drug offenses. They have made poverty, homelessness, addition or mental health claims a get out of jail and court defense. They are loosing huge numbers of police officers and only planning on hiring social workers to replace them. Businesses are closing right and left. What businesses remain the City Council is trying to actively drive out the largest.
What Portland is saying makes perfect sense to the woke progressive politicians. Years ago, the Seattle School District came up with a education project for teachers that tried to teach them about racism in the school system.
The educational documents there leaked to the public and created a huge controversy. Things like spelling and grammar were labeled as racist. Turning in homework in a timely manner was also racist. Showing up for class or showing respect for the teacher and other students was racist. Finally, people realized that if this got very far the value of a Seattle School District High School Diploma would amount to absolutely no value.
At that point the School District just buried things so they would not all come out in single documents. It looks like Oregon didn't learn that lesson.
Wait until you see the federal government push back on the standardized testing required in the no child left behind laws as they get modified under the Democratic Party.
If you don’t have to show your work, then just cheat....cheating and leftist rats go hand in hand....
Good, more bang for the buck!
I guess I should add—the AA president’s total inability to understand mathematics was a major contributing cause to the company’s failure.
When they infiltrated our colleges and universities with their brainwashing programs, surely they had no idea we would take it to such extremes.
That may be the attitude and of course it’s hilarious.
One thing that I always used to believe was the real sciences were neutral - anyone who had some talent and will power could make it. Equations are neutral: you get them or you don’t. I have seen actual cases of that, and some of them in rather high places.
So to dilute it is to destroy it. There’s no doubt that everyone could use more help: American high schools are thin on helpful tutoring. But the texts I have seen are the opposite of helpful - the Common Core crap was so bad, it was like they were teaching from comic books.
Lots of help now exists in American universities, because they have so many remedial programs to make up for the secondary education problems. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
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