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2019-10-27 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Mathematics a tool of racial oppression, Seattle public schools committee says
[AMERICANTHINKER] Something called the "K‐12 Math Ethnic Studies Framework," created by a Seattle Public Schools "Ethnic Studies Advisory Committee," is intended to instruct students that math is intimately connected to racial oppression. Students will be taught "how technology and/or science have been and continues [sic] to be used to oppress and marginalize people and communities of color." The framework, the final draft of which is scheduled to be completed by September 2020, will also attempt to "explain how math dictates economic oppression." That's correct: math.

Tracy Castro-Gill, the ethnic studies program manager at Seattle Public Schools, noted that the framework is intended to redress the fact that the district has not been properly serving minority students. Castro-Gill said, "The goal is to disrupt the status quo and do something different." Disrupting the status quo is the goal ‐ and sacred quest ‐ of all progressives. She added, "It's important to break down barriers while valuing our differences." Those of her ilk love breaking down barriers. And fences. And standards.

The framework curriculum will consist of four themes: Origins, Identity, and Agency; Power and Oppression; History of Resistance and Liberation; and Reflection and Action.
Posted by Fred 2019-10-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ]  Top

#1 People always talk about how racist math is. IMO, why they ignore how sexist it is?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-10-27 02:42||   2019-10-27 02:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Teachers in the US must have it so tough. I mean real educationists, not recognition hungry idiots. And my wife complains about difficult parents too interested in their kid's progress, and incessant reports and activities they must organize.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-10-27 07:10||   2019-10-27 07:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Math is a religion just ask baby Sheldon and the church of mathology!
Posted by Angens Turkeyneck2026 2019-10-27 08:53||   2019-10-27 08:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Ah, so THAT'S why there is such a high incarceration rate. They can't understand what "10 to 20" means.
Posted by DooDahMan 2019-10-27 09:23||   2019-10-27 09:23|| Front Page Top

#5 "Math is HARD!"

Barbie
Posted by no mo uro 2019-10-27 11:59||   2019-10-27 11:59|| Front Page Top

#6 The only way you. can logically follow this line of reasoning is to accept the underlying assumption that people of color are less intelligent and therefore can’t as easily grasp non contextual data. In other words, they are limited to reasoning only in the context of their sub-culture. A damning admission if you accept the premise.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2019-10-27 14:03||   2019-10-27 14:03|| Front Page Top

#7 Algebra was invented by Arabs so this is racist!

Also, STEM jobs are higher paying jobs so these idiots are pushing people of color away from good jobs. That's also racist!
Posted by ruprecht 2019-10-27 14:18||   2019-10-27 14:18|| Front Page Top

#8 But the drug dealers are good at math, how else can they figure out the cost per weight and cash flow and all that?
Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2019-10-27 14:33||   2019-10-27 14:33|| Front Page Top

#9 All them bridges, damns, electronics and building must be tools of racial oppression too. Get rid of 'em!
Posted by DarthVader 2019-10-27 14:48||   2019-10-27 14:48|| Front Page Top

#10 @#8..so we need more math labs?
Posted by Classer 2019-10-27 16:56||   2019-10-27 16:56|| Front Page Top

#11 You can tell from her picture, she never counted the dollops or the pancakes. That's Castro-Gill, woke activist teacher. That woman's oppressing the earth just by being !

Posted by Dron66046 2019-10-27 17:04||   2019-10-27 17:04|| Front Page Top

#12 Algebra was invented by Arabs so this is racist!

According to a long and detailed Wikipedia post on the subject, neither the Arabs nor the Muslims invented algebra, which dates back to the Babylonians, but they did name it. So that’s something.

Add it to the long list of inventions and discoveries claimed by the Muslims — like the discovery of America — to which their connection came very late in the game.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-10-27 17:11||   2019-10-27 17:11|| Front Page Top

#13 Aren't the Babylonians basically Arabs before Islam?
Posted by ruprecht 2019-10-27 19:06||   2019-10-27 19:06|| Front Page Top

#14 @ #11 WOW, what a babe! I want her for her body AND her brains.
Posted by DooDahMan 2019-10-27 20:17||   2019-10-27 20:17|| Front Page Top

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