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San Francisco schools banned kids from taking algebra in 8th grade

235 points by g42gregory 4y ago

BHSPitMonkey 4y ago
Why are we linking to a tweet linking to an article?
Bukhmanizer 4y ago
The fact that this HN post links to a tweet which links to an opinion article that almost exclusively cites blogposts most of which were written by the author of the article makes it extremely hard to find any factual content.
- ipnon 4y ago
  [flagged]
  - cscurmudgeon 4y ago
    What is the truth here?
- dilyevsky 4y ago
  This article links to sfusd site and data from CPRA request - https://www.sfexaminer.com/our_sections/forum/is-sfusd-math-education-the-equivalent-of-theranos/article_b74449b8-017b-11ed-9349-b30d6f8d27bf.html https://www.sfexaminer.com/our_sections/forum/is-sfusd-math-... so no
- dredmorbius 4y ago
  It's helpful to email mods when you notice this at hn@ycombinator.com. (I've done so here, the posts have been merged / comments moved, excluding meta-threads such as this.)
retox 4y ago
Link to the article rather than a tweet with a link; https://www.sfexaminer.com/forum/put-algebra-1-back-in-eighth-grade/article_01ca608e-be01-11ed-9d12-5fb4111a4db8.html https://www.sfexaminer.com/forum/put-algebra-1-back-in-eight...
dredmorbius 4y ago
This is item is a dupe and Twitter blogspam of an article which had been submitted earlier today: SFUSD's delay of algebra 1 has created a nightmare of workarounds (sfexaminer.com) <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35379809 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35379809> <https://www.sfexaminer.com/forum/put-algebra-1-back-in-eighth-grade/article_01ca608e-be01-11ed-9d12-5fb4111a4db8.html https://www.sfexaminer.com/forum/put-algebra-1-back-in-eight...> The SF Examiner piece (guest opinion) is actually substantive and detailed. Somewhat atypical for the publication itself.
- dang 4y ago
  OK, we've moved most of the comments to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35379809 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35379809 and re-upped that thread instead. Thanks!

235 points by g42gregory 4y ago

Why are we linking to a tweet linking to an article?

The fact that this HN post links to a tweet which links to an opinion article that almost exclusively cites blogposts most of which were written by the author of the article makes it extremely hard to find any factual content.

ipnon 4y ago
[flagged]
- cscurmudgeon 4y ago
  What is the truth here?
dilyevsky 4y ago
This article links to sfusd site and data from CPRA request - https://www.sfexaminer.com/our_sections/forum/is-sfusd-math-education-the-equivalent-of-theranos/article_b74449b8-017b-11ed-9349-b30d6f8d27bf.html https://www.sfexaminer.com/our_sections/forum/is-sfusd-math-... so no
dredmorbius 4y ago
It's helpful to email mods when you notice this at hn@ycombinator.com. (I've done so here, the posts have been merged / comments moved, excluding meta-threads such as this.)

retox 4y ago

Link to the article rather than a tweet with a link; https://www.sfexaminer.com/forum/put-algebra-1-back-in-eighth-grade/article_01ca608e-be01-11ed-9d12-5fb4111a4db8.html https://www.sfexaminer.com/forum/put-algebra-1-back-in-eight...

dredmorbius 4y ago

This is item is a dupe and Twitter blogspam of an article which had been submitted earlier today: SFUSD's delay of algebra 1 has created a nightmare of workarounds (sfexaminer.com) <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35379809 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35379809> <https://www.sfexaminer.com/forum/put-algebra-1-back-in-eighth-grade/article_01ca608e-be01-11ed-9d12-5fb4111a4db8.html https://www.sfexaminer.com/forum/put-algebra-1-back-in-eight...> The SF Examiner piece (guest opinion) is actually substantive and detailed. Somewhat atypical for the publication itself.

dang 4y ago
OK, we've moved most of the comments to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35379809 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35379809 and re-upped that thread instead. Thanks!