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Math (and STEM) have been labeled "racist" for a period of years now; sometimes in academia, but particularly in activist and secondary media circles, as well as in Woke progressive governments at various scales. It's beyond absurd, though its penetration and observation varies around the nation.
Oregon's governor signed a bill doing away with reading, math, and science requirements for secondary graduation, if memory serves. While it was officially blamed on the pandemic, so-called racial equity factors were cited among primary reasons for the legislation.
San Diego, CA, had decided to effectively do away with its grading system wholesale, relegate behavioral considerations to some amorphous and euphemistic evaluation, and potentially relax its previous policy regarding cheating — all in the name of "combating racism," mind you. Full disclosure, I'm unsure whatever came of this, though California is 'nucking futs' and I typically don't follow it with ardent regularity if only to preserve my own sanity.
It's all patently racist and harmful to students of all ages, but is routinely and dutifully spun (in true gaslighting fashion) as corrective benevolence.
Math is just the start. At some point the grading system will be done away with. Problem solved.
At which point private testing centers will spring up. Here students will be properly tested. The better the reputation of the testing center the more valuable the results.
A public school diploma will mean nothing to employers.
Asians as a group score high in math but for some reason they don't count when studies are done. The reason they score high? They have a high percentage of 2 parent families.
Tutoring. Sit in a library in any affluent suburb after school and on Saturday mornings, and take note of who is there being tutored in math. Asian-Americans don't wait until kids start to struggle in math before taking action; they start tutoring very young and stick with it. Other kids head to sports practice after school. Asian-American kids head for the library. How do I know? Twenty-five years of raising kids in the suburbs.
Educators around the US have come out to condemn the 'Dismantling Racism in Mathematics' program.
It centers around a workbook which asserts that asking students to find the correct answer for math problems is inherently harmful for minorities.
So far, the workbook is being used by school districts in Georgia, Ohio, California and Oregon.
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