In the Name of Equity, California Will Discourage Students Who Are Gifted at Math

[excalibur]

The stupidity in California and across America continues to grow. Where it ends is anyone's guess. But the dumbing down continues unabated.

California's Department of Education is working on a new framework for K-12 mathematics that discourages gifted students from enrolling in accelerated classes that study advanced concepts like calculus.

The draft of the framework is hundreds of pages long and covers a wide range of topics. But its overriding concern is inequity. The department is worried that too many students are sorted into different math tracks based on their natural abilities, which leads some to take calculus by their senior year of high school while others don't make it past basic algebra. The department's solution is to prohibit any sorting until high school, keeping gifted kids in the same classrooms as their less mathematically inclined peers until at least grade nine.

"The inequity of mathematics tracking in California can be undone through a coordinated approach in grades 6–12," reads a January 2021 draft of the framework. "In summary, middle-school students are best served in heterogeneous classes."

In fact, the framework concludes that calculus is overvalued, even for gifted students.

"The push to calculus in grade twelve is itself misguided," says the framework.

As evidence for this claim, the framework cites the fact that many students who take calculus end up having to retake it in college anyway. Of course, de-prioritizing instruction in high school calculus would not really solve this problem—and in fact would likely make it worse—but the department does not seem overly worried. The framework's overriding perspective is that teaching the tough stuff is college's problem: The K-12 system should concern itself with making every kid fall in love with math.

Broadly speaking, this entails making math as easy and un-math-like as possible. Math is really about language and culture and social justice, and no one is naturally better at it than anyone else, according to the framework.

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In the Name of Equity, California Will Discourage Students Who Are Gifted at Math

California's Department of Education is working on a new framework for K-12 mathematics that discourages gifted students from enrolling in…

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[MarathonMike]

This insanity has got to stop. The push to Calculus in the 12th grade is misguided????? Based on what? The hurt feelings of kids who don't get it??

 

[Floyd61]

Whites and Asians are going to have to be a lot dumber if we're going to achieve equality

 

[Orangecat]

I'm glad I was allowed to attend advanced classes in school. I was bored waiting for the future democrats to figure shit out.

 

[Scottish_Brexiteer_UK]

This is another blaring example of this idiocy and what happens when you take it to it's logical conclusion.

Watch out for each of the elite sports teams being forced to have a morbidly obese person in a key position as some sort of fat pride inclusiveness plan.
Large tech companies being forced to have a couple of folk with downs syndrome on their executive board picking up 2-million p/a salaries.
People in wheelchairs as Police officers on the beat.

and you can already have biological men compete at the top of women's sports, be sent to women's jails etc.

 

[TNHarley]

Why are the "smart" people always the dumbest?

 

[B. Kidd]

Whites and Asians are going to have to be a lot dumber if we're going to achieve equality

Do you mean that they'll be fighting constantly in airports too?

 

[B. Kidd]

Why are the "smart" people always the dumbest?

Superman 'Bizarro World'.

 

[marvin martian]

The stupidity in California and across America continues to grow. Where it ends is anyone's guess. But the dumbing down continues unabated.

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California's Department of Education is working on a new framework for K-12 mathematics that discourages gifted students from enrolling in accelerated classes that study advanced concepts like calculus.​

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The draft of the framework is hundreds of pages long and covers a wide range of topics. But its overriding concern is inequity. The department is worried that too many students are sorted into different math tracks based on their natural abilities, which leads some to take calculus by their senior year of high school while others don't make it past basic algebra. The department's solution is to prohibit any sorting until high school, keeping gifted kids in the same classrooms as their less mathematically inclined peers until at least grade nine.​

​

"The inequity of mathematics tracking in California can be undone through a coordinated approach in grades 6–12," reads a January 2021 draft of the framework. "In summary, middle-school students are best served in heterogeneous classes."​

​

In fact, the framework concludes that calculus is overvalued, even for gifted students.​

​

"The push to calculus in grade twelve is itself misguided," says the framework.​

​

As evidence for this claim, the framework cites the fact that many students who take calculus end up having to retake it in college anyway. Of course, de-prioritizing instruction in high school calculus would not really solve this problem—and in fact would likely make it worse—but the department does not seem overly worried. The framework's overriding perspective is that teaching the tough stuff is college's problem: The K-12 system should concern itself with making every kid fall in love with math.​

​

Broadly speaking, this entails making math as easy and un-math-like as possible. Math is really about language and culture and social justice, and no one is naturally better at it than anyone else, according to the framework.​

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In the Name of Equity, California Will Discourage Students Who Are Gifted at Math

California's Department of Education is working on a new framework for K-12 mathematics that discourages gifted students from enrolling in…

reason.com

This is a great idea for California. Let's get them out of the way already, so the rest of the country can move on.

 

[KissMy]

Gifted children don't belong in public school system anyway.

 

[B. Kidd]

The stupidity in California and across America continues to grow. Where it ends is anyone's guess. But the dumbing down continues unabated.

​

California's Department of Education is working on a new framework for K-12 mathematics that discourages gifted students from enrolling in accelerated classes that study advanced concepts like calculus.​

​

The draft of the framework is hundreds of pages long and covers a wide range of topics. But its overriding concern is inequity. The department is worried that too many students are sorted into different math tracks based on their natural abilities, which leads some to take calculus by their senior year of high school while others don't make it past basic algebra. The department's solution is to prohibit any sorting until high school, keeping gifted kids in the same classrooms as their less mathematically inclined peers until at least grade nine.​

​

"The inequity of mathematics tracking in California can be undone through a coordinated approach in grades 6–12," reads a January 2021 draft of the framework. "In summary, middle-school students are best served in heterogeneous classes."​

​

In fact, the framework concludes that calculus is overvalued, even for gifted students.​

​

"The push to calculus in grade twelve is itself misguided," says the framework.​

​

As evidence for this claim, the framework cites the fact that many students who take calculus end up having to retake it in college anyway. Of course, de-prioritizing instruction in high school calculus would not really solve this problem—and in fact would likely make it worse—but the department does not seem overly worried. The framework's overriding perspective is that teaching the tough stuff is college's problem: The K-12 system should concern itself with making every kid fall in love with math.​

​

Broadly speaking, this entails making math as easy and un-math-like as possible. Math is really about language and culture and social justice, and no one is naturally better at it than anyone else, according to the framework.​

​

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In the Name of Equity, California Will Discourage Students Who Are Gifted at Math

California's Department of Education is working on a new framework for K-12 mathematics that discourages gifted students from enrolling in…

reason.com

This is a great idea for California. Let's get them out of the way already, so the rest of the country can move on.

You forget that what happens in California can eventually seep like an overflowing septic tank to the rest of America.
Kamala, Kamala, can you hear me?

 

[Floyd61]

Whites and Asians are going to have to be a lot dumber if we're going to achieve equality

Do you mean that they'll be fighting constantly in airports too?

Yes, we need "equality"

 

[B. Kidd]

Gifted children don't belong in public school system anyway.

Why not? They can uplift the rock bangers.

 

[xband]

The stupidity in California and across America continues to grow. Where it ends is anyone's guess. But the dumbing down continues unabated.

​

California's Department of Education is working on a new framework for K-12 mathematics that discourages gifted students from enrolling in accelerated classes that study advanced concepts like calculus.​

​

The draft of the framework is hundreds of pages long and covers a wide range of topics. But its overriding concern is inequity. The department is worried that too many students are sorted into different math tracks based on their natural abilities, which leads some to take calculus by their senior year of high school while others don't make it past basic algebra. The department's solution is to prohibit any sorting until high school, keeping gifted kids in the same classrooms as their less mathematically inclined peers until at least grade nine.​

​

"The inequity of mathematics tracking in California can be undone through a coordinated approach in grades 6–12," reads a January 2021 draft of the framework. "In summary, middle-school students are best served in heterogeneous classes."​

​

In fact, the framework concludes that calculus is overvalued, even for gifted students.​

​

"The push to calculus in grade twelve is itself misguided," says the framework.​

​

As evidence for this claim, the framework cites the fact that many students who take calculus end up having to retake it in college anyway. Of course, de-prioritizing instruction in high school calculus would not really solve this problem—and in fact would likely make it worse—but the department does not seem overly worried. The framework's overriding perspective is that teaching the tough stuff is college's problem: The K-12 system should concern itself with making every kid fall in love with math.​

​

Broadly speaking, this entails making math as easy and un-math-like as possible. Math is really about language and culture and social justice, and no one is naturally better at it than anyone else, according to the framework.​

​

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In the Name of Equity, California Will Discourage Students Who Are Gifted at Math

California's Department of Education is working on a new framework for K-12 mathematics that discourages gifted students from enrolling in…

reason.com

Mathematics is racist. Photographic memories are racist. Cats and dogs are racist

 

[excalibur]

Gifted children don't belong in public school system anyway.

Why not? They can uplift the rock bangers.

That was the stated purpose of forced school busing. In one generation we went from the right to attend the closest school to busing kids all over the place.

The NAACP and the courts thought having little black children sitting in classes with little white children would aid the little black children's education.

It failed. All government schemes fail. They just keep imposing another one, and another one, etc.

 

[excalibur]

The stupidity in California and across America continues to grow. Where it ends is anyone's guess. But the dumbing down continues unabated.

​

California's Department of Education is working on a new framework for K-12 mathematics that discourages gifted students from enrolling in accelerated classes that study advanced concepts like calculus.​

​

The draft of the framework is hundreds of pages long and covers a wide range of topics. But its overriding concern is inequity. The department is worried that too many students are sorted into different math tracks based on their natural abilities, which leads some to take calculus by their senior year of high school while others don't make it past basic algebra. The department's solution is to prohibit any sorting until high school, keeping gifted kids in the same classrooms as their less mathematically inclined peers until at least grade nine.​

​

"The inequity of mathematics tracking in California can be undone through a coordinated approach in grades 6–12," reads a January 2021 draft of the framework. "In summary, middle-school students are best served in heterogeneous classes."​

​

In fact, the framework concludes that calculus is overvalued, even for gifted students.​

​

"The push to calculus in grade twelve is itself misguided," says the framework.​

​

As evidence for this claim, the framework cites the fact that many students who take calculus end up having to retake it in college anyway. Of course, de-prioritizing instruction in high school calculus would not really solve this problem—and in fact would likely make it worse—but the department does not seem overly worried. The framework's overriding perspective is that teaching the tough stuff is college's problem: The K-12 system should concern itself with making every kid fall in love with math.​

​

Broadly speaking, this entails making math as easy and un-math-like as possible. Math is really about language and culture and social justice, and no one is naturally better at it than anyone else, according to the framework.​

​

...​

In the Name of Equity, California Will Discourage Students Who Are Gifted at Math

California's Department of Education is working on a new framework for K-12 mathematics that discourages gifted students from enrolling in…

reason.com

Mathematics is racist. Photographic memories are racist. Cats and dogs are racist

Zebras. What about zebras?

 

[struth]

This is leftist for you...they aren't about lifting people up, but ripping people down. It's not let's make people more educated, let's make people less educated, it's not about let's make the poor richer, it's let's make the rich poor.

 

[struth]

Gifted children don't belong in public school system anyway.

why not?

 

[B. Kidd]

Gifted children don't belong in public school system anyway.

Why not? They can uplift the rock bangers.

That was the stated purpose of forced school busing. In one generation we went from the right to attend the closest school to busing kids all over the place.

The NAACP and the courts thought having little black children sitting in classes with little white children would aid the little black children's education.

It failed. All government schemes fail. They just keep imposing another one, and another one, etc.

Well. Blacks can't bitch that they weren't given a square shot!

 

[KissMy]

The stupidity in California and across America continues to grow. Where it ends is anyone's guess. But the dumbing down continues unabated.

new framework for K-12 mathematics that discourages gifted students from enrolling in accelerated classes that study advanced concepts like calculus.​

This was Republican President George W Bush's Education Platform he called "No Child Left Behind"!!! The teachers spend all their time helping the bottom 10% while the all the top students are left to fend for themselves.