> Why did San Francisco Schools Stop Teaching Algebra in Middle School? Because the school superintendent and the board of education believe much more strongly

> Why did San Francisco Schools Stop Teaching Algebra in Middle School? Because the school superintendent and the board of education believe much more strongly in wealth redistribution and social equality than many of the constituents do. Local elections: They matter. Also, as the article says, the headline is clickbait. Common Core scatters algebra all over elementary school. The “traditional” curriculum, many years of arithmetic followed by Algebra I and II, geometry (plus proofs), trigonometry, and calculus, that is a harmful segmentation of math. Many students learn to hate and reject math before they even reach the parts that are useful to daily life. The trick is getting teachers to teach the Common Core curriculum. The uncomfortable truth is that many teachers have no business teaching math, and leave students horribly confused about what math actually is. I even encountered a (SFUSD) middle school math teacher who uses jokes to try to make math fun, but his children (going to SFUSD schools) grew up hating math.