San Francisco middle schools will teach Algebra I again this fall — though concerns about implementation continue amid a shortage of qualified teachers.
The 6-1 vote by the San Francisco Unified School District board Tuesday followed a decadelong battle over eighth graders' access to higher-level math courses and a larger debate over academic opportunity and equity in math performance.
Stanford researchers found last year that large racial and ethnic gaps in advanced math enrollment persisted even after the policy change.
So what if there are gaps. If siblings who grow up in the same household can grow up to achieve vastly different things then why should we expect this amongst students. Such is life. Some students will do well in algebra and some won’t. I struggled to get a B in algebra and that was with a lot of late night studying with my father.
It took me 10 years after I left school to grasp algebra, and that was only after I learned it does in fact have functional applications
Who is this Al Jabber I keep hearin about.
No arguments but I think you have to address it. I believe you can find meaningful work that suits your intelligence level but punishing those who are very intelligent makes no sense and just accepting that certain demographics will do better on average in certain areas would be great. Sure you’ll find blacks who are good at math but not in the same number as Whites and Asians and that’s ok. This attempt to “close the gap” is a lesson in futility at the expense of those who are more talented
I think the left is correct that majority of the current gap is environmental.
They think the environment problem is patriarchy and racism and legacy, but really it's integration and trying to teach blacks the way whites/asians are taught.
The simple matter is that blacks need way more discipline in their schools (and life in general) due to their genetic differences (5%-10% with low genetic impulse control, hormone differences, and so on).
The way to address it is boot-camp type schools where they can get a whoopin' like they did before integration. If they're not learning they have to spend more time at school attempting to learn. Anything that gives them the extra motivation they need, whether it's having other students look down on them or missing out on b-ball or getting smacked up.
Put the right incentives in and correct the bad behavior and the gap will be small.
True. Much easier to place the blame at “inequality”. I would love to see this applied to sports. That would be hilarious.
There's not enough morbidly obese People Of Calories in basketball, clearly this is systemic discrimination.
Honestly it would be comedy gold to do a movie that applies DEI nonsense to professional sports
"Ladyballers" fits the bill. It's a pleasant watch with a fantastic ending.
If I were a CivNat cuck, I'd say...
There are a lot of ways to slice up people, and however you slice them you will notice differences. This is only undesirable if you have a religious insistence on everyone being the same. Otherwise, variety is the spice of life.
IRL me says, there's no way to incorporate blacks into white society without violence and lots of undesirable stuff.
The problem isn't even that these people are trying to close a gap that can't be closed. It's that they care in the first place.
Equity is impossible, equality isn't. Same laws, same punishments, same standards.
The real question is; is it worth it. How many criminal thugs are worth tolerating to get one black doctor? It's not like his melanin is going to provide super healing magic or something. We can get that one doctor out of the asian community without having to accept a whole case of dindu flavored nuffins.
There are problems finding people who are capable of teaching middle school algebra? Wow, those mandatory master's degrees for teachers have really done wonders for the profession.
They have, if you goal is to fill education with gay commie "activists". Because those are the only kind of people who can make it through the garbage indoctrination that pretends to be a degree in "education".
Excellent point
Almost nobody wants to teach middle school, it is objectively the worst age.
Also it's San Fransisco. A teacher's salary might not be worth it in a city with such a high cost of living, especially if they're new in their career. If they're offering like $65k/year and the average rent costs $40k/year, most people aren't going to be chomping at the bit to move to San Fran and teach math to overcrowded classrooms full of phone-addicted brats. You're much better off teaching at the community college in some Midwestern town.
Oh what, having drug addicts wandering your neighborhood like zombies and taking fat shits outside of your apartment doesn't make you want to live in SanFran? Bigot.
The funny thing is I know some good people who teach in California but have drank the kool-aid and think our certification programs are top of the line. I think the main reason some of these teachers oppose others leaving state is they fear for their pension.
It's always the fucking pension. Never let anyone convince you that these government golems are working for anything else.
How is diversity a strength when they're using 'Harrison Bergeron' as an instruction manual to dumb down entire school systems?
No wonder private schools exist.
To cripple those who would excel is the true face of equity.
As someone who HATES algebra, why was it left off again? It's something you have to at least attempt and understand even if in future employment you never really utilise it.
Because not enough black kids are capable of learning algebra and we can't have them realizing how dumb they are because it might upset them
I'm not joking at all
It's not hyperbolic though. We've got more than a half-century of demoralizing rhetoric aimed at black people (white people too, but from a different angle) about how they're being held down and that racism is hidden everywhere. Of course they're going to have (on average) a massive inferiority complex.
It's not hyperbolic. Half of blacks have IQs under 85, these are not capable of abstract thinking.
It's probably much worse, not only because the average IQ is closer to 80 than 85, but also because more than 15% of whites struggle with algebra. It's possible that 2/3 of blacks lack the intelligence to learn abstract concepts. And this includes the 100+ IQ African immigration demographics who skew the average up, so among the non-immigrant blacks it's even worse still.
Especially when you account for cultural self segregation, where intelligent black people tend to distance themselves geographically and culturally, and now you're looking at a reality where among the usual suspects (in terms of fashion, language, cultural belonging, behavior) that number is, what, above 80%?
No wonder profiling works so incredibly well. You think if you stopped and frisked every Chinese looking person you'd cut crime dramatically? No crime would go up, because you're clearly wasting your limited time and resources on a practice that has no statistical foundation.
It's to remove evidence of underperformance, to not blaspheme against blank slate theory, the most sacred core of the religion of modern marxism.
It’s wild that it’s JUST NOW returning. I was in middle school in the early 2000s and algebra 1 was a 7th grade class for me.
Demographics is destiny.
I heard they're also reintroducing the elective classes on anal rape, but you know that could be something I made up and refused to substantiate the same way OP did.
Don't be silly.
It's San Francisco. Anal rape is a mandatory class, not an elective.
Dammit, I knew I got something wrong.
try using google once in your life
https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2023/11/16/8th-grade-algebra-schools-why
You and OP should both try being less of a nigger.
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Seeing as the guy from Jabbari was brown when he came up with Algebra...
Hush now, we have imaginary numbers. Why not imaginary realities?
I was going to teach Maths - but our Education Department STILL wants the mRNA clot shot so I said fuck that
I use it frequently enough.
I use algebra and calculus. Maybe GP and I do different things. I am an engineer. you might say these things have applications in the real world. They do in my real world.
Yeah, pressing X to doubt that. You never thought something along the lines of "Hmmm, I've got $20. How many $4 sandwiches (or whatever) can I get with that?" Because that's algebra: 4*x = 20, x=5. The fact that you probably (and virtually everybody should be able to) did it in your head in 2 seconds without writing the formula out just means you understand the process intuitively.
You don't do anything important then