Supposedly - a combination of "new math" and "DEI", but then the source I read had an axe to grind as well ;) I suspect more than one real teacher kept doing whatever worked...but back to regular programming: Down With The MAN!
I just googled it... WTF is going on in CA? Banning middle school algebra to reduce the racial divide in test scores??!?!?!!? WTF IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE. Lets push everyone down, instead of trying to pull people up. Lets teach to the lowest common denominator, rather than challenge those that excel.
"...WTF IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE. Lets push everyone down, instead of trying to pull people up...." Well that IS what the illiberal (left) attack on meritocracy means. It sounds good on paper (I suppose) until real policy/results reveal what it means in practice.
That's just it YMO, if I had it to do over again I would by right with you - degree in finance and then pinching the pennies off of 100 million WASP's. Pennies on the dollar on a jumbo loan adds up to real $ real quick!
CA policies/education is absolutely INSANE right now. Honestly, if I were to have kids I would not send them to public school. I would either move states or go private
It almost seems like CA gov wants to normalize incompetency and degeneracy at this point. Whether it's to (continue to) secure votes or something else, not totally sure.
Think about how much money it takes to really run a school district with tens of thousands of students right and that's probably most of the answer there.
Not teaching algebra? Has the value of x fallen so far?
I'm innumerate, and grind to a halt at the first equation when I read something technical. But heck, at least I know what an equation is!
I was thrown out of the maths class as a no-hoper. I guess the alternative would have been to bring the rest of the class down to my level? Oh god no... /Somebody/ has to understand this stuff!
My wife asked me if I’d be willing to trade this world for a world in which everyone were precisely as smart as I. “No.” “Why not?!” “Because I’m not so smart as David Hilbert. And we need people like that.” “But don’t you think that a whole world of people as smart as you could figure these things out?” “No. We need to have some *unbelievably* smart people. Not everything can be crowdsourced.”
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