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There was also a recent incident in Virginia: (Virginia Drops Advanced Math)[https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careers/virginia-to-drop-advanced-math-courses-befo
by rpmisms 5y ago
There was also a recent incident in Virginia: (Virginia Drops Advanced Math)[https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careers/virginia-to-drop-advanced-math-courses-before-11th-grade-citing-equity/ar-BB1fZe9y https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careers/virginia-to-drop-adv...]
This disgusts me. Some kids are stupid (Apologies for blunt language, but it's true, life is unfair.) or have poor home lives, so let's remove education that can help them have better lives because some of the struggling kids are black. Counterintuitive, oversensitive, and directly hindering
Dragging everyone down because some diversity quotas aren't met is awful. Unless there's clear evidence that teaching advanced math directly contributes to racism, teach it, make it harder. Make our kids work and succeed and fail again.
- 908B64B197 5y ago> because some of the struggling kids are black What about the black overachievers? Princeton certainly didn't lower the bar for him [0] [0] https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/10/us/princeton-first-black-valedictorian-trnd/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/10/us/princeton-first-black-vale...
- rpmisms 5y agoThat's super cool, good for him. It's also an anecdotal example and relatively meaningless in the scheme of things. I'm not even saying that black kids have any inherent disadvantages, but that people have become so sensitive to that perception as to seriously hinder actual education. Seriously, people are worried about racial sensitivity in math. These two things do not go together, should not go together, and have almost zero reason to interact.