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.
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.