Posted on 07/19/2023 10:04:40 AM PDT by nickcarraway
2+2= RACISM!!!!
What children NEED are the basics: reading, writing, and arithmetic. Children who have not mastered the basics should be taught NOTHING BUT the basics until they are at minimal level. No sex education, nothing but basics.
Those who have mastered the basics should not be held back by those who haven’t.
Exactly.
Students with IQs of 85 and below cannot reason abstractly and forcing them into algebra and trig is senseless cruelty.
Pretending that “if only” (the teachers weee better, there was more money, etc) the impact of low and very low intelligence will be attenuated is a lie.
Defund public education.
We have to burn the village to save it.
The Maoists are going for broke.
Don't get me started on teachers unions, their total control of education bureaucracy and standards, and dumbing down.
Our local state university offers high school students an advanced math program, based on college coursework. It is funded by endowment from a wealthy person, and university professors volunteer to teach the high school kids. It is totally free. HS students graduate doing college-level calculus, multivariate calculus, vector analysis, etc...
Kids just need to test-in in 7th grade, and get to the university twice or three times a week for scheduled classes. Parents with admitted students will often car pool. Kids coming out of this program of course wind up at top universities, med-schools, etc...
Our lazy, woke, stupid local public school bureaucracy decided, while they can't prevent kids from attending this advanced program, they would stop even announcing the program exist, or helping children/parents prepare for the entrance test.
These people are truly evil.
It’s all just practice for the day when the only homework handouts will be election ballots, with the “X’s” already included. Parents’ handouts on registration day will be diplomas, nothing else. It’s only fair.
“Collaboration”
I hate this. This is just a way to use the labor of the smart to give credit to the dumb. Companies are doing this as well. They call it teamwork. Then they can select the individuals to promote that meet their diversity goals instead of the most qualified.
Do the minimum is the solution. Use your mind to figure out how to progress outside of work.
Well, that’s what our ‘professional’ educators believe. After all, they know better than the parents - because they have a teaching degree, maybe even a Masters degree.
So only they are the ‘qualified’ individuals to decide WHAT our kids get taught.
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It really begs the question, there’s a difference between HOW to teach and WHAT to teach. At some point, they’ve been led to believe that they’ve the autonomy to decide WHAT to teach...and not just in math either.
They’re communists, even if they’ve been taught that it is something different. Unless everyone can achieve a standard then NOBODY will achieve the standard. They call it ‘equity’, it’s just another name for poverty, the equal misery of everyone.
Every time I see an HR department show the slides on “equity”, showing 3 people where only one is tall enough to look over a fence to watch a game, so the solution is to provide steps for the other two so they all see at the same level, I want to laugh at them. It ‘feels’ like you’re just helping those less able, which seems to have virtue. Then you realize what it’s really saying. Their respective height represents productivity and the fence represents a standard of living. So the implication is that everyone can have the same high standard of living even though only 1 person is producing enough to achieve it.
No difference from communism. Eventually, those that produce won’t, because there’s no point. Then those that produce less have the same living standard - which is now just a level of misery for everyone.
Next up, "medical identity rainbows" with surgical procedures outcomes based on communal equity, not medical knowledge.
WHAT!!!!!!!!! Educated blacks and Hispanics who think for themselves ????ARE YOU MAD?????????????
Lived in California my first few years....In 5th grade,I was transferred into a new form of math...called SMSG...Can’t remember what it stood for, but we called it some math, some garbage.....Annnnd that was longer than 35 years ago.....
NAME: __________________
GANG: __________________
Johnny has an AK-47 with an 80-round clip. If he misses 6 out of 10 shots and shoots 13 times at each drive-by shooting, how many drive-by shootings can he attempt before he has to reload?
Jose has 2 ounces of cocaine and he sells an 8-ball to Jackson for $320 and 2 grams to Billy for $85 per gram. What is the street value of the balance of the cocaine if he doesn’t cut it?
Rufus is pimping for three girls. If the price is $65 for each trick, how many tricks will each girl have to turn so Rufus can pay for his $800-per-day crack habit?
Jarone want to cut his 1/2 pound of heroin to make 20% more profit. How many ounces of cut will he need?
Willie gets $200 for stealing a BMW, $50 for a Chevy, and $100 for a 4X4. If he has stolen 2 BMWs, 3 4X4s, how many Chevies will he have to steal to make $800?
Raoul got 6 years for murder. He also got $10,000 for the hit. If his common-law wife spends $100 per month, how much money will be left when he gets out?
Extra credit bonus: how much more time will he get for killing the bitch that that spent his money?
If an average can of spray paint covers 22 square feet and the average letter is 3 square feet, how many letters can be sprayed with 3 eight ounce cans of spray paint with 20% paint free?
Hector knocked up 3 girls in the gang. There are 27 girls in his gang. What is the exact percentage of girls Hector knocked up?
Thelma can cook dinner for her 16 children for $7.50 per night. She gets $234 a month welfare for each child. If her $325 per month rent goes up 15%, how many more children should she have to keep up with her expenses?
Salvador was arrested for dealing crack and his bail was set at $25,000. If he pays a bail bondsman 12% and returns to Mexico, how much money will he lose by jumping bail?
Bernie is a lookout for the gang. Bernie has a Boa Constrictor that eats 3 small rats per week at a cost of $5 per rat. If Bernie makes $700 a week as a lookout, how many weeks can he feed the Boa on one week’s income?
Billy steals Joe’s skateboard. As Billy skates away at 35 mph, Joe loads his .357 Magnum. If it takes Joe 20 seconds to load his magnum, how far away will Billy be when he gets whacked?
California is the test bed for what is to come for the rest of the states
Over 60 years ago now, our Geom teacher in high school was easily distracted by us bored students into telling stories (mostly whoppers).
For us, SMSG stood for "Sometimes MacDermott Sticks to Geometry."
That said, IIRC, it was "School Study Mathematics Group", and everyone, teachers and students alike, knew that it was beyond ineffective.
True racism is telling a kid you can’t suffer through something difficult and slap down a victory.
What makes a kid truly confident? Defeating the monster, not shrieking about one.
I went through this as well. In fact my junior year math teacher went off her program for about three months and taught the SMSG background so that we could use the new texts. (I recall that they were paperback)
Anyway I caught on to what they were trying to do with math and with this teacher’s help managed to get through it. Had to learn all the terms like associative, communitivity, transitive Etc. But once you got that the problems were not different.
The truth, when I became a math teacher many years later, these terms were still with me. But since I did not major in math I never got to see how they worked to make understanding of different numerical systems easier.
Socialists KNOW, as a foundation of the True Faith, that there is no such thing as slow children. "Intelligent" children are automatically racist bigots.
Good on ya' my FRiend!
My impression of SMSG is that it was a predecessor to the more more damaging fuzzy math that so many kids have today; however, I'd love to learn your opinion on that.
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