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> In 2014, the city of San Francisco decided to try to improve equity in math education by barring kids from taking algebra in 8th grade

i honestly thought this had to be satire - it seems it wasn't.

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Who could possibly have thought that it was a good idea? It makes absolutely no sense.

it is like not teaching geography. now, i kind of can get behind this thought, as whenever i went into a geography lesson at school, there would be a clunk which was my head falling on the desk into deep slumber - teacher: "somebody wake up hicks", except this was long pre "alien", much less "aliens".

but people should have the chance of being taught these things, or indeed anything. to deny them of this is flatly wrong.

It's genius.

Kids are failing? Lower the bar! Suddenly everyone has "improved". The bureaucrats are happy, the unions are happy, even the parents who don't care about education are happy!

Makes it easier to push for the next part of the bureaucrat's agenda [0] [1] : CRT laced math and computer science education.

[0] https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11...

[1] https://criticallyconsciouscomputing.org/

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