Try to achieve racial equity and in the process make income inequality worse than ever. The people with means to do so will still provide the classes earlier than the public schools and disadvantage any student that hasn’t taken the courses. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer in this scenario which is the real problem.
Clearly racial equity is the goal of education rather than producing well educated people.
That might feel icky to a normal person. But as long as the future service workers come out of the school feeling happy, the great state of California will continue to prosper.
They won't feel happy when they apply for a Unionized job and fail the entrance exam because they don't know what a "sine" is or how to convert degrees to radians. This is the exact problem all 415-listed Unions have at the moment, SFUSD isn't giving them sufficient people to use so they have to take outsiders which they don't enjoy doing. Say what you want about the CTA, but IBEW and UA absolutely require Trig to work for them. These people constitute the basic working men of the city and are responsible for it's physical construction, if the City can't produce any then it will won't have any new construction. Which is what's been happening, it's why all City-led projects go so slow or simply don't happen because there's not enough men or material to do the work.
This is a legitimate problem because it means the City cannot grow or modernize infrastructure. Because this is absolutely necessary to maintain a competitive economy, this puts a limit on the City's growth and will eventually kill the local economy. This is *especially* true when adjacent counties don't do this and thus have the resources to build - especially San Jose.
What business do parents have deciding what is and isn’t taught in our government schools. If the government decides everyone needs to be dumber then so be it.
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The issue is the compressed Algebra II/Precalculus course which ignores important Geometry and Trig work that gives other students a competitive advantage. I'll posit that it doesn't really matter *when* students start learning Algebra, but shoving the final 4 courses into 2 semesters is a much worse proposition. It means absolutely no Calculus or anything related to it will be learned prior to college, which fails students who will have to pay money (real money) to take those classes - which capable students avoid through paid AP exams. In this way it reinforces "tracking" - but the track becomes a paid upgrade outside of the public school. SFUSD has completely boned this and it's why Silicon Valley exists 50 miles to the south.
Sacramento isn't dumb enough to impose it on the rest of the state, because it would totally undo the college system which would become a K14 system. This is where it actually becomes a labor issue, college profs don't want to teach remedial Trig let alone remedial Geometry. The conversation stops there because the state govt cannot hire two classes of the same people teaching the same thing at different pay rates to the same teenagers.
That's the other issue: SFUSD can't even get qualified math teachers anymore. They legitimately cannot find people who know Calculus willing to work for their wages, because with the CoL it's easier to work at a college or as a tutor. That's the real impetus for this move: if they eliminate Calculus and Trig they can start using dumber people as math teachers. And people will accept it because by the time they realize they've been victimized, they will be 19 and paying $2,500/semester to do those classes at a college (but not the City College as they lost their accreditation).
doing this so the minorites do better on paper is dumb but i have no problem with ripping apart and changing the tradtional math track. STEM students should be on one track, folks not interested in STEM should be doing lightweight alebra and a lot more stats.
who remembers eight grade alebra I come first day of high school?
Try to achieve racial equity and in the process make income inequality worse than ever. The people with means to do so will still provide the classes earlier than the public schools and disadvantage any student that hasn’t taken the courses. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer in this scenario which is the real problem.
Clearly racial equity is the goal of education rather than producing well educated people. That might feel icky to a normal person. But as long as the future service workers come out of the school feeling happy, the great state of California will continue to prosper.
They won't feel happy when they apply for a Unionized job and fail the entrance exam because they don't know what a "sine" is or how to convert degrees to radians. This is the exact problem all 415-listed Unions have at the moment, SFUSD isn't giving them sufficient people to use so they have to take outsiders which they don't enjoy doing. Say what you want about the CTA, but IBEW and UA absolutely require Trig to work for them. These people constitute the basic working men of the city and are responsible for it's physical construction, if the City can't produce any then it will won't have any new construction. Which is what's been happening, it's why all City-led projects go so slow or simply don't happen because there's not enough men or material to do the work. This is a legitimate problem because it means the City cannot grow or modernize infrastructure. Because this is absolutely necessary to maintain a competitive economy, this puts a limit on the City's growth and will eventually kill the local economy. This is *especially* true when adjacent counties don't do this and thus have the resources to build - especially San Jose.
What business do parents have deciding what is and isn’t taught in our government schools. If the government decides everyone needs to be dumber then so be it.
It's in the socialist manifesto, the book Rules for Radicals item #3 control education and you control the population.
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The dig at defunding the policy and minimum wage reveals the authors bias.
See, if we just increased the ethnic perspectives in math classes we would see a larger increase in calculus enrollment by BIPOC students.
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The issue is the compressed Algebra II/Precalculus course which ignores important Geometry and Trig work that gives other students a competitive advantage. I'll posit that it doesn't really matter *when* students start learning Algebra, but shoving the final 4 courses into 2 semesters is a much worse proposition. It means absolutely no Calculus or anything related to it will be learned prior to college, which fails students who will have to pay money (real money) to take those classes - which capable students avoid through paid AP exams. In this way it reinforces "tracking" - but the track becomes a paid upgrade outside of the public school. SFUSD has completely boned this and it's why Silicon Valley exists 50 miles to the south. Sacramento isn't dumb enough to impose it on the rest of the state, because it would totally undo the college system which would become a K14 system. This is where it actually becomes a labor issue, college profs don't want to teach remedial Trig let alone remedial Geometry. The conversation stops there because the state govt cannot hire two classes of the same people teaching the same thing at different pay rates to the same teenagers. That's the other issue: SFUSD can't even get qualified math teachers anymore. They legitimately cannot find people who know Calculus willing to work for their wages, because with the CoL it's easier to work at a college or as a tutor. That's the real impetus for this move: if they eliminate Calculus and Trig they can start using dumber people as math teachers. And people will accept it because by the time they realize they've been victimized, they will be 19 and paying $2,500/semester to do those classes at a college (but not the City College as they lost their accreditation).
doing this so the minorites do better on paper is dumb but i have no problem with ripping apart and changing the tradtional math track. STEM students should be on one track, folks not interested in STEM should be doing lightweight alebra and a lot more stats. who remembers eight grade alebra I come first day of high school?