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Fortuity there are free options for good online instruction available to everyone in the world with youtube access. https://www.khanacademy.org/math/ap-calculu

Fortuity there are free options for good online instruction available to everyone in the world with youtube access. https://www.khanacademy.org/math/ap-calculus-ab https://www.khanacademy.org/math/ap-calculus-ab When we focus narrowly on what brick and mortar Public HS should and should not be teaching in regards to math curium we sideline all the pathways for learning available outside of this bureaucratic model. Folks in most places in the United States a least can check out a Chromebook from a local library and use their free internet to access this information.

dymk 4y ago
I don't think it's reasonable to expect some kid to sit through their algebra class, and then go home and take a self-directed calculus class at home. Certainly only the kids who are hyper-math-ers are going to do that in the first place, and we miss out on the kids who would have taken calc had it simply been offered. Highschoolers fork over swaths of their day to the public education system already. Let's try to not waste any more of their time.
- caddemon 4y ago
  Yeah this is a huge part of it. It's one thing to say "we don't have the resources for high achievers", but it's a million times worse to force them through a shit curriculum because we don't want to acknowledge our school system is largely glorified baby sitting. Especially for kids from poorer backgrounds it is not easy to just sit on Khan Academy after school. If they can't teach leveled classes they should let kids test out of certain classes, and spend time in a semi-supervised study hall with those free resources instead. But it's not about resources here, or at least that isn't the main argument they're giving. The mere existence of students that can test out of math is apparently detrimental to others. This seems like over the top sheltering to me.

dymk 4y ago

I don't think it's reasonable to expect some kid to sit through their algebra class, and then go home and take a self-directed calculus class at home. Certainly only the kids who are hyper-math-ers are going to do that in the first place, and we miss out on the kids who would have taken calc had it simply been offered. Highschoolers fork over swaths of their day to the public education system already. Let's try to not waste any more of their time.

caddemon 4y ago
Yeah this is a huge part of it. It's one thing to say "we don't have the resources for high achievers", but it's a million times worse to force them through a shit curriculum because we don't want to acknowledge our school system is largely glorified baby sitting. Especially for kids from poorer backgrounds it is not easy to just sit on Khan Academy after school. If they can't teach leveled classes they should let kids test out of certain classes, and spend time in a semi-supervised study hall with those free resources instead. But it's not about resources here, or at least that isn't the main argument they're giving. The mere existence of students that can test out of math is apparently detrimental to others. This seems like over the top sheltering to me.