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.
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