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Oregon Educators: Making Math Students Show Their Work Is ‘White Supremacy’
Breitbart ^ | 2-16-2021 | Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.

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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KEYWORDS: 1moretime; race; racism; schools; white
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To: blam

Ironically, it IS White Supreemism. Lol


21 posted on 02/16/2021 10:20:58 AM PST by cdcdawg (Salute the marines!)
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To: blam

Wakandanometry


22 posted on 02/16/2021 10:21:16 AM PST by The Toll
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To: Regulator

“ 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! 😉


23 posted on 02/16/2021 10:22:10 AM PST by Bigbrown
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To: blam

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.


24 posted on 02/16/2021 10:23:04 AM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (It's a lie. It's all lies. Use every opportunity to poison their data. )
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To: blam

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...


25 posted on 02/16/2021 10:25:02 AM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: blam
√49= White Supremacist
26 posted on 02/16/2021 10:25:26 AM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (It's a lie. It's all lies. Use every opportunity to poison their data. )
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To: blam

Serfs don’t need to do math, they only need to work and obey.


27 posted on 02/16/2021 10:26:06 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: blam

The public education bureaucracy is not about “education.”

Its about maintaining the bureaucracy and the benefit of its members. Politics comes second.


28 posted on 02/16/2021 10:26:29 AM PST by PGR88
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To: blam

Remember, these are the enlightened people who believe in science, unlike us poor dumb rubes. /s /s /s


29 posted on 02/16/2021 10:27:18 AM PST by Campion (What part of "shall not be infringed" don't they understand?)
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To: blam
Are they saying that black math students are too stupid to get the right answer?

I want to remind them basketball is racist. To stop this, the black players must wear boxing gloves when they play.

30 posted on 02/16/2021 10:27:47 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (Die-ggl,TWT,FCBK,NYT,WPo,Hwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antf,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP,MSNBC )
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To: Bigbrown
He should have NO competition from these morons.

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.

31 posted on 02/16/2021 10:28:20 AM PST by PGR88
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To: cgbg; Little Ray

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.


32 posted on 02/16/2021 10:30:17 AM PST by Regulator (It's Fraud, Jim)
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To: RitchieAprile

only abouth the 10th time this has been posted..
= = =

Shame.

You are using a number, i.e., ‘10’

I note you did say ‘about’


33 posted on 02/16/2021 10:31:00 AM PST by Scrambler Bob (This is not /s. It is just as viable as any MSM 'information', maybe more so!)
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To: blam
“.......What the manual never succeeds in explaining is how dumbing down mathematics will magically eliminate “mathematical inequity,” a proposal that is counterintuitive...........”

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.

34 posted on 02/16/2021 10:31:47 AM PST by Robert357
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To: blam

If you don’t have to show your work, then just cheat....cheating and leftist rats go hand in hand....


35 posted on 02/16/2021 10:34:44 AM PST by cherry (we are the Remnant)
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To: JoSixChip

Good, more bang for the buck!


36 posted on 02/16/2021 10:36:35 AM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: Regulator
if you’re jets don’t work, they don’t get flown, and the company ceases to exist.

I personally witnessed a company fail because they made an affirmative action hire president.

The shareholders got burned badly.

Fortunately lives were not at stake in that situation...
37 posted on 02/16/2021 10:40:12 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: cgbg

I guess I should add—the AA president’s total inability to understand mathematics was a major contributing cause to the company’s failure.


38 posted on 02/16/2021 10:41:50 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: blam
The members of the CCP are laughing their derrieres off at us.

When they infiltrated our colleges and universities with their brainwashing programs, surely they had no idea we would take it to such extremes.

39 posted on 02/16/2021 10:45:33 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: Bigbrown

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.


40 posted on 02/16/2021 10:48:06 AM PST by Regulator (It's Fraud, Jim)
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