California's new math curriculum makes dummies

[T. A. Gardner]

In the name of all that's woke, California has put out a new state curriculum for schools that focuses on fair and equal rather than preparing students for jobs and college on graduation. This new curriculum includes deliberate measures to hold high achievers back so that low achievers might not look so bad. You can't make stupidity of this magnitude up.

California's Department of Education has announced that the gap between well-performing students and their less able peers must disappear, indicating that mere words are not enough - schools must deliver ‘equity’ in classrooms.
Such an effort would involve faculty holding well-performing students back, even while pushing their less intellectual peers forward (as if they were all indeed equal in abilities). Potentially stranding a group of gifted individuals in a situation where they are held back by a single child who simply can’t get a problem right and needs endless special instruction is hardly something to be proud of, for the school or the students themselves.

Released on Tuesday, the sprawling, hundreds of pages-long manifesto delivered by the California Health Department described how schools must focus on “active efforts” in mathematics. Starting at the beginning of K-12 education to ensure no “gifted and talented” or advanced tracking programs take hold among the faculty, the policy implies to parents that if they want the same free public education as anywhere else in their school district, they have no choice but to subject their kids to racist pandering and a warped new form of mathematics that many may find insulting.

https://www.rt.com/usa/523097-school...mative-action/

The few sane people still in California--did you ever notice there's a red star on their flag?-- are trying to stop this latest insanity.

Hundreds of highly distinguished science and math professors have signed an open letter expressing "urgent concern" over California’s efforts to reform mathematics education in the name of social justice.

The letter, signed by 597 science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) professionals, said the California Department of Education’s (CDE) proposed new mathematics framework will aim to reduce achievement gaps by limiting the availability of advanced mathematical courses to middle schoolers and beginning high schoolers, making it more challenging for students to succeed in STEM at college.

https://news.yahoo.com/california-ap...191935487.html

Will your gifted child take calculus? Maybe not under California’s reimagined math plan

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...uses-on-equity

Oh, and this new plan renames mathematics as "data science" as if that will make their stupidity all better...

[BidenPresident]

RT is Moscow Official News.

[T. A. Gardner]

RT is Moscow Official News.

So, that's your response, a genetic fallacy? I deliberately put RT news first in the list of sites I used to back this up expecting retards on the Left, like you, to fall into that trap. The LA Times is beating this up too? Are they Russian conspirators too?

Your focus on the source rather than the information presented exposes you as the sort of shallow non-thinker on the Left that doesn't want to be confronted by your own stupidity, but you just got that. Have fun trying to defend California's new idiotic curricula for math.

[BidenPresident]

So, that's your response, a genetic fallacy? I deliberately put RT news first in the list of sites I used to back this up expecting retards on the Left, like you, to fall into that trap. The LA Times is beating this up too? Are they Russian conspirators too?

Your focus on the source rather than the information presented exposes you as the sort of shallow non-thinker on the Left that doesn't want to be confronted by your own stupidity, but you just got that. Have fun trying to defend California's new idiotic curricula for math.

I like math.

[T. A. Gardner]

I like math.

Using your fingers and toes doesn't count here...

[BidenPresident]

Using your fingers and toes doesn't count here...

No, I have a good formal math education.

[T. A. Gardner]

No, I have a good formal math education.

Sure you do...

[BidenPresident]

Sure you do...

And you're a sentient being. Go figure. Skepticism goes both ways.