Virginia to eliminate advanced math courses because not enough minorities qualify

You're scum, lib.

live in WA wrote:

Lenny Leonard wrote:

Good riddance.

As a current Virginia educator, I am thrilled that you and others that share your mindset are leaving the profession.

You're scum, lib.

They are precisely why the US education system is a laughing stock.

25 years ago, I signed up for what was then a supposedly cool new idea in math instruction: integrated math! It focused on real world problem solving, weaving together multiple disciplines, etc.

However: while you do learn to solve silly “real world” problems, you never actually learned any abstract math concepts or skills, so when the higher-level courses came around, everyone was woefully unprepared.

Taking that program was the biggest mistake of my academic career.

76321 wrote:

cry me a river wrote:

Following for White Grievance Thread of the Day, but this was pretty much done earlier today, so this is just a sympathy follow, relly.

What? Are you deaf to the grievances of people of all colors who have smart kids or to smart kids themselves? A poster, "Seyta," makes a fine addition to this thread and you complain about white people! Cry your own river, idiot.

Cry me a river is the biggest A hole on this board. I feel sorry for his mother. Carry on!

A Passage to Rhodesia wrote:

What a great idea. Lets dumb everything down, this will be great for our future.

The quest for "racial equality" continues.

"The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) is moving to eliminate all accelerated math options prior to 11th grade, effectively keeping higher-achieving students from advancing as they usually would in the school system...

"Offering an inclusive learning environment that engages and challenges students of varied levels of understanding and different interests will be a focus of the common mathematics pathways proposed in grades K-10."

foxnews.com/us/virginia-accelerated-math-courses-equity

As regular as clockwork - another whining white grievance thread.

The article is from fox news.....enough said.

Not to worry about "differentiation". No child in Virginia will be taught enough math to understand differentiation.

When I did the parent thing at a major west coast STEM university, I noticed that Virginia HS grads were overly well represented among my kid's friends. Especially Thomas Jefferson HS in Fairfax Co, it was like it was the NYC equivalent rival.

In case anybody was wondering whether the alt-rights even read the fear mongering articles they post, now we have our answer.

ienjoyracing wrote:

In case anybody was wondering whether the alt-rights even read the fear mongering articles they post, now we have our answer.

Sorry, this article actually wasn’t fear mongering, only the poster. The article didn’t mention or even hint that it was a decision based on minorities or race.

I missed it wrote:

Where did the article say anything about minorities?

Right wingers around here LOVE false thread titles. It’s like they are allergic to the truth.

Liberals are a joke but these math courses are too as they don't really teach any real world knowledge besides perhaps indirect stuff such as figuring stuff out such as the stock market for instance. Problem solving ability perhaps. But even stock expert does not need to be good at math. All the math stuff you forget in a week and have to study for days to relearn it. Really comes down to who studies the most that does good at math.

swingsandmisses wrote:

I missed it wrote:

Where did the article say anything about minorities?

Right wingers around here LOVE false thread titles. It’s like they are allergic to the truth.

Didn't you guys see the buzzword " equity" srpead "liberally" around in that linked article?

What's the matter , you don't want to own it?

It's not totally about minorities though because it shows tacit disapproval of Asians in there!

JosePublico wrote:

swingsandmisses wrote:

Right wingers around here LOVE false thread titles. It’s like they are allergic to the truth.

Didn't you guys see the buzzword " equity" srpead "liberally" around in that linked article?

What's the matter , you don't want to own it?

It's not totally about minorities though because it shows tacit disapproval of Asians in there!

Is it too much to ask for thread titles that aren’t brazen lies? Is the truth that unsupportive of your agenda?

swingsandmisses wrote:

JosePublico wrote:

Didn't you guys see the buzzword " equity" srpead "liberally" around in that linked article?

What's the matter , you don't want to own it?

It's not totally about minorities though because it shows tacit disapproval of Asians in there!

Is it too much to ask for thread titles that aren’t brazen lies? Is the truth that unsupportive of your agenda?

Don't want to own it?

JosePublico wrote:

swingsandmisses wrote:

Is it too much to ask for thread titles that aren’t brazen lies? Is the truth that unsupportive of your agenda?

Don't want to own it?

The OP is who needs to own the lies. I’m not the one propagating them.

I have a graduate certificate in Gifted and Talented Education, and I can tell you with certainty that this is how you get gifted kids to drop out of school and/or misbehave and find other, unproductive ways to get stimulation. Dumbing down the curriculum helps no one, dramatically hurts the high achieving students, and indirectly hurts us all as kids who should be destined to be doctors, engineers, inventors, etc are artificially held back. Any responsible and sensible adult knows that you're supposed to help kids go as far as they can (within reason), not hold them back. Dear god.

This is pathological to a degree that is almost unbelievable.

swingsandmisses wrote:

I missed it wrote:

Where did the article say anything about minorities?

Right wingers around here LOVE false thread titles. It’s like they are allergic to the truth.

SDSU Aztec.

The retard probably created 10 different handles in this thread alone as usual.