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California Leftists Try to Cancel Math Class
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Posted on 05/19/2021 10:53:28 AM PDT by MNDude

If California education officials have their way, generations of students may not know how to calculate an apartment’s square footage or the area of a farm field, but the “mathematics” of political agitation and organizing will be second nature to them. Encouraging those gifted in math to shine will be a distant memory.

This will be the result if a proposed mathematics curriculum framework, which would guide K-12 instruction in the Golden State’s public schools, is approved by California’s Instructional Quality Commission in meetings this week and in August and ratified by the state board of education later this year.

The framework recommends eight times that teachers use a troubling document, “A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction: Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction.” This manual claims that teachers addressing students’ mistakes forthrightly is a form of white supremacy. It sets forth indicators of “white supremacy culture in the mathematics classroom,” including a focus on “getting the right answer,” teaching math in a “linear fashion,” requiring students to “show their work” and grading them on demonstrated knowledge of the subject matter. “The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false,” the manual explains. “Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuates ‘objectivity.’ ” Apparently, that’s also racist.

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KEYWORDS: arth; bidenvoters; ca; crt; k12; math; news; racism; wboopi
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To: MNDude

Sounds like they are advocating a statewide leave every child behind curriculum, especially when it comes to math. Now that they have mandated gay history into the curriculum, could gay math be far behind.


21 posted on 05/19/2021 11:33:12 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: Billthedrill
Here are the traitorous, leftwing, racist collaborators who excreted "A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction: Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction."
22 posted on 05/19/2021 11:36:46 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: MNDude

Why should students (who cannot read) know more math than your typical DemocRAT politician?

I trust we have not lost drawings for guillotines because we’re gonna need a lot more of those than ventilators.

Democrats. Disposable. Not recyclable. But always loathsome.


23 posted on 05/19/2021 11:39:04 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: MNDude
Waddaya' mean ?

Thery alREADY can't calculate an apartment's square footage.

24 posted on 05/19/2021 11:42:22 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true !)
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To: pepsionice

6 years at where the ox forded the creek is plenty of learning.


25 posted on 05/19/2021 11:44:33 AM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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To: MNDude

To overthrow the Constitution and establish a Marxist government requires an ignorant population who will not understand their lies are lies. They are laying their groundwork.


26 posted on 05/19/2021 11:59:40 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Rummyfan

I’m guessing they’ll come up with a slew of reasons why collapsing bridges could be looked at in a positive way. Reality isn’t that important to these people. They just want to live in a fantasy utopia, devoid of the laws of nature and physics.


27 posted on 05/19/2021 12:10:01 PM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
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To: MNDude

I thought the muslims invented math? So what gives?

This is stupid insanity. Math is not a White supremacist thing. Math is true no matter who says it.

Is this just a way to excuse black failure in math and to blame it on Whitey? blacks can’t do math problems and fail exams, so the exams and math must be at fault, not the homelife, lack of father, and study habits of the black kids.


28 posted on 05/19/2021 12:16:31 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Non-binary transnormativity is a construct of intersectionality. Leftist gobbledegook stinks.)
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To: Crusher138
No kidding re. your comment about hiring CA engineers. Drill down further and you can add lots more vocations to the list.

Carpenters, electricians, bookkeeper, etc.

29 posted on 05/19/2021 12:19:51 PM PDT by Hootowl99
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To: ridesthemiles

Cannot figure out how much gasoline the $5 in their pocket will buy...or how far they can drive...

Or what the squiggles on the rectangular greenish paper represent ...


31 posted on 05/19/2021 12:54:39 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest

You don’t get it:

There is no right or wrong.

Good or evil.

Beautiful or ugly.

There are only close minded, racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic bigots.

The world is relative today (meaning whatever you see as wrong you should take as right or true), inclusive (except for you), tolerant (except for your ideas), diverse (unless it is to a special groups advantage: you don’t hear any outcry to have quotas for more male teachers, or to get more whites and Asians on basketball teams, do you?)...

***Modern society is just as racist as it was in the 50s, only today you have quota’s for special groups, scholarships for special groups, schools for special groups, even the vaccine roll out was targeting special groups, federal employers target special groups in their recruitment efforts, the police is concerned when dealing with special people and even justice takes special class into consideration (Ashley Bobbit vs. Daunte Wright), special groups get to say what they want and won’t face censorship as frequently...

I have a son and a daughter. If my daughter applied for ANY federal job, do you think the competition for her is as fierce as it is for my son? The world is not fair until through a quota they ensure you have equality in outcome.


32 posted on 05/19/2021 1:14:54 PM PDT by Red6
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To: MNDude

What they’re really saying is “Blacks can’t do math”. How’s that for racism?


33 posted on 05/19/2021 1:29:30 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: MNDude

My lawyer youger brother will approve, He used to brag how little math he had in HS, and none after that.

Then again, by friend’s half-Japanese daughter must be racisss for getting a master’s in math. Not in Calif of course.


34 posted on 05/19/2021 1:40:36 PM PDT by doorgunner69 ("Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.." -Joseph Stalin)
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To: Carl Vehse

Many thanks. One of them has a BS in math, f’Petessake. You’d think she’d know better.


35 posted on 05/19/2021 2:53:31 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Crusher138

BINGO!


36 posted on 05/19/2021 5:05:36 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Crusher138

Hire them with no relocation $ then fire them 1 month in. For cause. Lol


37 posted on 05/19/2021 5:22:00 PM PDT by wgmalabama (Tag line for rent)
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To: MNDude; 2Jedismom; 6amgelsmama; 100American; AAABEST; aberaussie; AccountantMom; Aggie Mama; ...

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

This ping list is for the other articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. Articles pinged to the Another Reason to Homeschool List will be given the keyword of ARTH. (If I remember. If I forget, please feel free to add it yourself)

The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.

38 posted on 05/28/2021 6:20:35 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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