Stanford professor who advocates against teaching algebra to middle-schoolers for "equity" pays $48k for private school

Why are they discriminating against straight white men?! It makes me so mad!

Dont See s problem with this. If democrat voters want equality of outcome sind vote for it (which they constantly do) then its her job to find ways to enact the will of the people. She herself obviously knows that this will decrease education quality and wisely uses private education. She is not to blame. The racist voters are

This boils down to smart students capable of learning algebra in 8th grade have to wait for 9th grade. There is a new focus on teaching “data science” which may be a more practical tool in today’s world of information overload and misinformation.

There will be data to support if this approach works or not. For more ambitious students there are many free online resources for kids to learn algebra and geometry on their own. I predict California will not experience a drop in high achieving students.

My conclusion is the sky is not falling. Pick another hill to die on.

Person is smiling to your face and shaking your hand, while with the other hand they stab you in the back....and the sucker tax payers are voting for this.

Kids are better off staying at home and watching school house rock.

In many ways, California is already a third world country. The wealthy and businesses are leaving and being replaced by poor illegal immigrants. CA debt is 1.7 Trillion. They also have unfunded pension liabilities totaling 1.5 Trillion dollars.

California has 12% of the USA population but 35% of the nations' welfare recipients. Everyone is on the take.

"Woke" education has been absolutely disastrous for the state. California K-12 schools lost more than 20% of their students since 2019.

California is 100% governed by democrats with a democrat supermajority legislature.

I was a math teacher in a state where all 8th grade students are taught algebra unless they have a learning disability or similar. Many 8th graders can and should take algebra. I did myself (in a podunk Wisconsin town, even). However, the fact is that most kids that age do not have the required level of brain development to process abstract symbols and concepts like that. Yes, even for simple algebra. It honestly does a disservice to those kids. They should be mastering arithmetic and f*cking rational numbers instead. Or heck, maybe even reading.

The education policy boogeyman of "tracking" is a necessary evil. Intelligence and general school aptitude (you know, stuff like following directions and behaving in part of a large group) are NOT evenly distributed in the population. Actual "equity" would mean more separation by ability/behavior, not less. As long as you give kids well-defined paths out of the "bad" track, it doesn't need to be such a hand-wringing white guilt topic.

California is America's Brazil. There is a super elite wealthy group at the top, a small and shrinking middle class, and the majority are poor. Sure, it can summon up glitz, but the day-to-day for most people is declining. For 160 years, California had big in-migration from around America. But for the first time in the state's history, California lost a Congressional seat in the 2020 reapportionment and net taxpayers are leaving the state. Newsom is doubling down on every idiotic far left policy while unemployment and the budget deficit are skyrocketing.

calmatters.org

When Newsom gives his State of the State, he should be candid about California's economy

Dan Walters

While much of the nation is enjoying a strong economic recovery from the pandemic, California is falling behind with scant job growth.

Link:calmatters.org/commentary/2024/03/cali...

The RULES are for thee, not for me

so the poster spamming “third world with a Gucci belt” a few years back was quite prophetic.

In income for single earner households, California is only behind two outliers, Alaska and Hawaii, which have special geographical circumstances, and Blue States/city, Virginia, Washington, Colorado, Maryland, New Jersey, Connecticut, Washington, D.C. (the highest income at $86k) and New Hampshire. California is 13th among 4 person households, those above are almost all Blue States again (D.C. #1 again). California is 10th among 2 person households, and so on. So, not only is California nothing like a third world country, but it is among the richest states in the country in MEDIAN income. With 39 million people, it ranks fifth in the world in GDP, behind only the U.S. (332 million people), China (1.5B), Germany (84M), and Japan (110M). By comparison GDP per capita in sub-Saharan Africa is $4,400, or about 1/8th that of California. That should give you insight into third-world vs. upper first world economies.