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I could imagine it being something along the lines of "The economic productivity of a typical black slave was X... yada yada yada... how many dollars in reparat

I could imagine it being something along the lines of "The economic productivity of a typical black slave was X... yada yada yada... how many dollars in reparations does America owe modern black Americans Y years later at interest rate Z." I could also imagine it being something much more benign. I really wish we could see what it actually was so we could see if the DoE's judgement here was reasonable or not.

capableweb 5y ago
> I could imagine it being something along the lines of "The economic productivity of a typical black slave was X... yada yada yada... how many dollars in reparations does America owe modern black Americans Y years later at interest rate Z." That does seems a bit unnecessary example since there is high racial tensions and the book is supposed to be about math. You could just use another example in that case. If it was about cases like that, I might just agree with them being rejected. > I really wish we could see what it actually was so we could see if the DoE's judgement here was reasonable or not. Agree, seems weird to not show people what the problem was if it's easy to justify. But then again, a lot of judicial, government and politics from America seems weird to me so...
klyrs 5y ago
> I could imagine it being something along the lines of It would be so nice if politicians could show us precisely what they're protecting our children from, so we wouldn't need to rely on HideousKojima's imagination for examples.
- gruez 5y ago
  >so we wouldn't need to rely on HideousKojima's imagination for examples I don't get it. What's so remarkable about "HideousKojima" (Hideo Kojima?)'s games?
  - fatcat32594 5y ago
    "HideousKojima" is just the HN username of the person who wrote the above possible example of what could be in the book
itbeho 5y ago
https://www.k12.wa.us/sites/default/files/public/socialstudies/pubdocs/Math%20SDS%20ES%20Framework.pdf https://www.k12.wa.us/sites/default/files/public/socialstudi...
- IanDrake 5y ago
- ironSkillet 5y ago
  Thank you for this link. I was wondering when someone was going to present some concrete evidence for the "social justice" creep into mathematics curriculum that some people object to.
timintheglades 5y ago
Turns out your were not that far off https://dailycaller.com/2022/04/21/desantis-examples-critical-race-theory-textbooks/ https://dailycaller.com/2022/04/21/desantis-examples-critica...

capableweb 5y ago

> I could imagine it being something along the lines of "The economic productivity of a typical black slave was X... yada yada yada... how many dollars in reparations does America owe modern black Americans Y years later at interest rate Z." That does seems a bit unnecessary example since there is high racial tensions and the book is supposed to be about math. You could just use another example in that case. If it was about cases like that, I might just agree with them being rejected. > I really wish we could see what it actually was so we could see if the DoE's judgement here was reasonable or not. Agree, seems weird to not show people what the problem was if it's easy to justify. But then again, a lot of judicial, government and politics from America seems weird to me so...

klyrs 5y ago

> I could imagine it being something along the lines of It would be so nice if politicians could show us precisely what they're protecting our children from, so we wouldn't need to rely on HideousKojima's imagination for examples.

gruez 5y ago
>so we wouldn't need to rely on HideousKojima's imagination for examples I don't get it. What's so remarkable about "HideousKojima" (Hideo Kojima?)'s games?
- fatcat32594 5y ago
  "HideousKojima" is just the HN username of the person who wrote the above possible example of what could be in the book

itbeho 5y ago

https://www.k12.wa.us/sites/default/files/public/socialstudies/pubdocs/Math%20SDS%20ES%20Framework.pdf https://www.k12.wa.us/sites/default/files/public/socialstudi...

IanDrake 5y ago
ironSkillet 5y ago
Thank you for this link. I was wondering when someone was going to present some concrete evidence for the "social justice" creep into mathematics curriculum that some people object to.

timintheglades 5y ago

Turns out your were not that far off https://dailycaller.com/2022/04/21/desantis-examples-critical-race-theory-textbooks/ https://dailycaller.com/2022/04/21/desantis-examples-critica...