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.
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.