There's so much condescension in that sentence alone. They say 'LatinX', where the correct term is Latin. They specifically list black students because the con

There's so much condescension in that sentence alone. They say 'LatinX', where the correct term is Latin. They specifically list black students because the constant message in the liberal USA is that black people aren't capable and need to be called out by skin color in all contexts so they can be helped across the line by virtuous white people who recognize their weakness. But keep reading the lesson plans and it goes on and on. Chapter 1 is "Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction", and it claims that "White supremacy culture infiltrates math classrooms [...] perpetuate educational harm on Black, Latinx, [...]" - "greater focus on getting the 'right' answer ..." - "required to 'show their work' in standardized, prescribed ways." - "Independent practice is valued over teamwork or collaboration." God forbid individual minority students are given the ability to personally succeed without being forced into a group identity, or that they be taught how to use math to communicate with others. - "It also presupposes that “good” math teaching is about a Eurocentric type of mathematics, devoid of cultural ways of being." Yes, of course, because math is about the numbers! You can apply it to your personal cultural way of being after learning how to get correct answers. It's actual racism is to assume that all black people need to have a social-justice framework put in front of their academics to "help" them. Not help them to success, but to a white-constructed pseudo-success of wrong but "culturally correct" answers that is somehow the best they can be expected to achieve. - "study ethnomathematics and incorporate into all classrooms." In other words, don't try to help everyone achieve a common goal, create race-based targets and replace all education with them. "the practice of school mathematics in the US regulates the child by privileging:" - "algebra/calculus over geometry/topology/spatial reasoning;" - "rule following over rule breaking;" - "Western mathematics (culture free) over ethnomathematics" - "logic over intuition" Calculus encompasses geometry and spatial reasoning, so that's just wrong. They attack "Rule following" - like the rules that get you correct answers. Western mathematics (which they've just identified as the type of math focused on correct answers). And logic, damned logic, getting in the way of the "lessers" just doing what they culturally know is right rather than applying critical thought like white people. There's nothing in that course, or any of the rest, or in the critical theory that it came from, which is capable of helping, or even intended to help, any minority student. It only prioritizes raising students uneducated and with a bunch of misplaced racial baggage. If you don't believe me, or want to write it off as "what a white supremacist would say", read this: https://unherd.com/2022/02/anti-racism-betrays-asian-students/ https://unherd.com/2022/02/anti-racism-betrays-asian-student... "After the tragic killing of George Floyd in 2020, much of the virtue-signalling that followed focused on an unexpected target: admissions processes. Activists claimed children “of colour” weren’t getting their fair share of places at good schools — or, to be precise, black and Hispanic children weren’t. The same couldn’t be said of Asian children. And so Asian students became a convenient scapegoat for “anti-racists”. [...] in the months when America was rocked by race riots, self-described “equity warriors” described the Asian, mostly immigrant families of TJ as “white-adjacent” and “resource hoarders”. The white principal, Ann Bonitatibus, told us to check our “privileges”, [...] the local school board — all 12 members endorsed by the Democratic Party — voted to remove the school’s merit-based, race-blind admissions process, and replace it with one that was race-based. Along with other parents I was horrified by the school’s readiness to use identity, rather than achievement, as the basis of admissions. But when we objected, the Virginia education secretary, a Democrat, told our families that preparing for tests was like using illegal “performance enhancement drugs”. A black father, Harry Jackson, who spoke up for our cause was called a “motherfucker” selling “segregationist bullshit” — by a white activist who uses the Twitter handle @Antiracist14"