Insane Leftist Professors Believe Math Is Racist

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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I am serious, and I was agreeing with you.

Math is not racist, people are.

Decisions of school boards and governors are not necessarily related to one or two professors in Michigan.

The reassessment of school tests happens quite often, dating back dozens of years. If you know anything about this, you'd know that PJ Media has made the professor's concern about testing a political nothingburger.

Now if you want to insult me and bring up a different case, let's see what happened in Oregon:

"SB 744 gives us an opportunity to review our graduation requirements and make sure our assessments can truly assess all students’ learning,"

"Senate Bill 744 does not remove Oregon’s graduation requirements, and it certainly does not remove any requirements that Oregon students learn essential skills," Boyle said, adding it is "misleading" to conflate the subjects of standardized testing with graduation requirements.

The attempt here is obviously help students who often fail high school because they fail tests that some in the school board consider too difficult for many of the students. Would this dumb-down the educational standards? Of course. Is this new? Certainly not. Happens frequently. Is this racism, to appeal to dumb people of color? Certainly not. It's an attempt to design tests that will be in line with what the schools can support. There are also dumb white people, BTW. Should the schools do a better job of teaching math. Yes. Are they failing at this? Yes. Why? Reduced funding for education, so that more money can support corporate handouts. Will it help students who often fail high school to give them the option of an easier test? Yes. Will that also dumb-down College entry? Not necessarily, for those colleges that require reasonable SAT and ACT scores for entry. Will it get the dumb kids into Community College or trade schools? Yes. They would avoid having to take the GED, and would start at college or a trade school with their easier HS test. Do these approaches benefit society? Yes, as more students remain in the educational systems, they will make more informed decisions, and will understand when a post on Saidit is punking them into divisive, negative, angry, hostile, illogical reasoning.

[–]Retardation_station 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Oh. Pardon me. I didn't get the jist of your original post.

It sounded as if you were suggesting that this was an isolated incident that had no support besides two idiots.

And no, I wasn't attempting to insult you. I simply assumed you were arguing in bad faith. Considering the amount of people who will brush off any story that is contrary to their preconceived notions, I think that's a forgivable assumption.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Oh - I see. It's easy to get into arguments at Saidit. :-)

[–]Retardation_station 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well, I always figured it's just the cost of discussion on the internet.

Over 50% of communication is nonverbal. So, while the words speak for themselves we're missing out on body language, facial expressions and tone of voice.

It's frustrating, but a lack of context usually is.