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.
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.