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Under the Common Core as specifically implemented in California, children who are ready for Algebra in middle school may take it, and children who benefit from

Under the Common Core as specifically implemented in California, children who are ready for Algebra in middle school may take it, and children who benefit from a delay may opt for delay. A central pillar of Equitable Math is that this disparity sustains White Supremacy in math, and thus all children should always be in the same class, up until the last year of high school.¹ This is the central point of contention, and not whether some children benefit from a delay of Algebra past middle school, and nor whether all children ought to learn Calculus. [1]: https://equitablemath.org https://equitablemath.org

Hermitian909 5y ago
> A central pillar of Equitable Math is that this disparity sustains White Supremacy in math, and thus all children should always be in the same class, up until the last year of high school. Could you cite a more direct source for this? It's in direct contradiction with the materials the site you linked provided me [0]. If you go to page 17 "September Who are my students?" they do not discourage different classes or tracks existing, they discourage placing students in different tracks without input from the student or their parents. As a former educator that seems sensible to me. Sometimes a student isn't quite ready to enter the more advanced mathematical track but could be made so with if provided some guidance on how to self study. I've seen many high school freshman apply themselves more readily when I laid out the long term consequences of different math tracks. [0] https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/1_STRIDE1.pdf https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11...