Ah yes, the "We think <minority group> is too fucking stupid to understand basic <subject>, so it must be a racist system created by HUWAITE peepol!" argument.
Maybe this is the long play- train the next generation to be too stupid to read statistics so it's harder for them to constantly undermine their own narrative.
Maybe this is the long play- train the next generation to be too stupid to read statistics so it's harder for them to constantly undermine their own narrative.
I'm as white as they come and was dumb as fuck at maths. I just can't fucking count, I think I'm borderline retarded when it comes to numbers. (I also can't remember numbers.)
I'm so glad yet again that I grew up where and when I did, otherwise the temptation would have been huge to make up excuses for myself because of this libtardism.
I've never been tested. Never would have guessed that things like difficulty remembering names starting with the same letter, spacial awareness, being shit at dancing or not understanding maps could actually connect to one thing.
Luckily I'm super anal about budgeting and I'm frugal, so at least that's good.
It's the bullshit that is algebra that throws me off. Theoretical bullshit, where you must solve for something that doesn't exist with changing formats for solving the problem in a non-linear fasion...fuck off with that. Give me figures, stats, real numbers.
“We are taking action to ensure all children, especially those facing barriers to success, have meaningful pathways to quality learning, graduation, access to post-secondary education and good-paying jobs.”
...Am I a bad person for saying that I think that line is COMPLETELY wrong?
We do not need to have 100% of our population graduating high school. Plenty of jobs don't need it. We do not need to have 100% of our population going to post-secondary, nearly NO jobs actually need it. We do not need 100% of our population having "good-paying jobs", in fact, if that were to happen, inflation would occur and EVERYONE would have shit-paying jobs.
Your average worker only needs to know how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide. Maybe a tiny bit of algebra. We already acknowledge pidgin and ghetto jive as official dialects of English, so it's not like language education matters fuck-all.
Tack a grade-9 onto public 1-8 education and have it be semi-specialized to general career paths, and you're pretty much golden.
Your average worker only needs to know how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide. Maybe a tiny bit of algebra.
Every person in the world would benefit from studying algebra to at least the college level, if only because that's where you move on from "remember these formulas", which is useful in passing a class, to "understand these concepts", which is useful in day-to-day life; there's a LOT of benefit to understanding that algebraic relationships can be applied to a wide variety of real-world concepts. Similarly, every person would benefit from a (DECENT) introductory trigonometry class; specifically, one that focused on conceptual uses rather then "OK guys, just memorize SOHCAHTOA for the test, yeah?", because being able to understand spatial relations is damned useful.
At the same time, I'd also strongly want people to have to take (again, decent) statistics classes, classes on taxes, all the stuff we used to call "home ec" (like cooking, housekeeping, laundry, etc), basic logic classes, and a number of other things that I'm sure many would call useless fluff classes (at least until they get out into the real world and suffer for the not knowing).
True, classes on logic, statistics, and "fluff classes" as you put it would be useful and helpful. But ultimately I think they could still be managed to be put into a more condensed curriculum. Certainly not something that needs to be delayed until post-secondary.
A lot of tech jobs are actually menial labor. Data entry needs only minimal on-the-job education, in example. You don't need to know math or philosophy to enter numbers in a spreadsheet.
No, if anything that's a very important part of modern civilization for the foreseeable future.
But i have a gut feeling average dude who fails to graduate high school wouldn't be so accepting.
You don't need to know math or philosophy to enter numbers in a spreadsheet.
That's the logic people used when they hired accountants down here in late 90s/early 00s. The outcome of it was a birth of a whole joke genre of accountant going into BSOD whenever 'entering numbers in a spreadsheet' gives unexpected outcome.
Simply put math is racist because it has unequal outcome.
Asians perform way above the rest, then whites and then brown and black so it is in a way racist.
There is no racism per say but they blame math itself rather then a cultural focus on education hence they are, as always the true racists.
Ah yes, the "We think <minority group> is too fucking stupid to understand basic <subject>, so it must be a racist system created by HUWAITE peepol!" argument.
Maybe this is the long play- train the next generation to be too stupid to read statistics so it's harder for them to constantly undermine their own narrative.
That's been the long play all along.
I'm as white as they come and was dumb as fuck at maths. I just can't fucking count, I think I'm borderline retarded when it comes to numbers. (I also can't remember numbers.)
I'm so glad yet again that I grew up where and when I did, otherwise the temptation would have been huge to make up excuses for myself because of this libtardism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyscalculia
I've never been tested. Never would have guessed that things like difficulty remembering names starting with the same letter, spacial awareness, being shit at dancing or not understanding maps could actually connect to one thing.
Luckily I'm super anal about budgeting and I'm frugal, so at least that's good.
This is interesting.
It's the bullshit that is algebra that throws me off. Theoretical bullshit, where you must solve for something that doesn't exist with changing formats for solving the problem in a non-linear fasion...fuck off with that. Give me figures, stats, real numbers.
I'm so glad I'm out of school, not gonna lie.
Ditto. Aside from Alegbra and every chubby kid's worst nightmare, I was a fucking A student.
For one, Asians kick everyone asses at math.
And this part is evil bullshit:
...Am I a bad person for saying that I think that line is COMPLETELY wrong?
We do not need to have 100% of our population graduating high school. Plenty of jobs don't need it. We do not need to have 100% of our population going to post-secondary, nearly NO jobs actually need it. We do not need 100% of our population having "good-paying jobs", in fact, if that were to happen, inflation would occur and EVERYONE would have shit-paying jobs.
Your average worker only needs to know how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide. Maybe a tiny bit of algebra. We already acknowledge pidgin and ghetto jive as official dialects of English, so it's not like language education matters fuck-all.
Tack a grade-9 onto public 1-8 education and have it be semi-specialized to general career paths, and you're pretty much golden.
Every person in the world would benefit from studying algebra to at least the college level, if only because that's where you move on from "remember these formulas", which is useful in passing a class, to "understand these concepts", which is useful in day-to-day life; there's a LOT of benefit to understanding that algebraic relationships can be applied to a wide variety of real-world concepts. Similarly, every person would benefit from a (DECENT) introductory trigonometry class; specifically, one that focused on conceptual uses rather then "OK guys, just memorize SOHCAHTOA for the test, yeah?", because being able to understand spatial relations is damned useful.
At the same time, I'd also strongly want people to have to take (again, decent) statistics classes, classes on taxes, all the stuff we used to call "home ec" (like cooking, housekeeping, laundry, etc), basic logic classes, and a number of other things that I'm sure many would call useless fluff classes (at least until they get out into the real world and suffer for the not knowing).
True, classes on logic, statistics, and "fluff classes" as you put it would be useful and helpful. But ultimately I think they could still be managed to be put into a more condensed curriculum. Certainly not something that needs to be delayed until post-secondary.
No, but if you can't even graduate high school, what are you good for besides doing menial labor
in the fieldsIs there something wrong with menial labor?
A lot of tech jobs are actually menial labor. Data entry needs only minimal on-the-job education, in example. You don't need to know math or philosophy to enter numbers in a spreadsheet.
No, if anything that's a very important part of modern civilization for the foreseeable future.
But i have a gut feeling average dude who fails to graduate high school wouldn't be so accepting.
That's the logic people used when they hired accountants down here in late 90s/early 00s. The outcome of it was a birth of a whole joke genre of accountant going into BSOD whenever 'entering numbers in a spreadsheet' gives unexpected outcome.
Asians aren't minorities when school is in session. Duh!
43,088,406/331,449,281 + 7264/13927
13/52 = REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
The only time 'normalize' should be said in a maths classroom is if we're scaling a vector to 1.
It's fucking math it's as far from racism as you can get
i think they are making the point, that since stats show that american blacks commit most of america's crimes, stats are racist.
cant fix the people, fix the math.
Racism is simply reality, and different races have different abilities to process concepts like numbers.
It's math: Math is reality.
And reality has a clear right-wing bias.
Simply put math is racist because it has unequal outcome. Asians perform way above the rest, then whites and then brown and black so it is in a way racist.
There is no racism per say but they blame math itself rather then a cultural focus on education hence they are, as always the true racists.
Ontario's premier is Doug Ford, a "conservative" who was billed as a Trump-style populist.
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Not gonna lie. If I have to choose between blacks, and math, I choose math.
"How?"