Posted on 02/17/2024 3:53:38 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Seems like I have read that when slavery was all the fashion among democrats, slaves were not permitted to learn to read, write, or other learning. Odd how history repeats itself.
CIA says no need to know math.
His logic doesn’t add up.
Sounds like Woodrow Wilson all over again. He wanted two education systems. One for the leaders and another to teach the rest only what they needed for THEIR job.
You can see why they want to do away with counting skills ...
I see several problems with math education.
1.) Lack of arithmetical automaticity. Elementary school arithmetic is taught at a conceptual level at a time when the foundational skills should be drilled to a point where the students know the answers without thinking.
2.) Lack of mathematical automaticity. It is not necessary for most students to understand the formulas, only to know them and be proficient in using them.
3.) Only students with an aptitude and interest in higher math for use in engineering and science should be forced to study math beyond freshman algebra.
Not a fan of Wilson but do you really think it is useful to force a student with an IQ of 85 to study calculus?
Teaching calculus to mutts is immensely useful to government school bureaucrats, administrators, and classroom sitters. It’s an easy-money do-nothing government career with gold-plated pension and health insurance benefits the private sector couldn’t touch. They just have to keep playing Chapter 1 endlessly on the TV, without ever having the inconvenience of having to power up what’s left of their own Biden brain.
no more thinking required apparently.....
people need to be put back in their place...
Why not! its racist! and they already don’t know how to read so now they wont know how to add and subtract. DEI is wonderful isn’t it? only we are the ones that have to deal with the danger it brings in many sectors
In Germany, students take a test at age 14. The high scorers are sent to what we think of as high school, the rest choose a vocational school. While this might seem unfair, in truth, putting unmotivated and less able kids in with brighter kids is a disservice to both groups. The bored and uninterested hold back the better students, and get nothing from the experience.
The problem is one-size-fits-all education. We no longer want to have schools like Peter Stuyvesant (my Grandfather’s old school) or Regis H.S., or the Bronx School of Science, instead all American high schools must now adopt the Baltimore model: worthless drug infested babysitting operations, because if some are able to excel, it makes the lazy and stupid feel inferior.
If they get rid of math then .gov can spend all it wants—and nobody will figure out what they are doing.
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I just want the IQ 85 person to prove they can count their fingers and toes correctly.
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