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This might be a good time to bring up Lockhart's Lament, which imagines what artistic education would look like if we treated it like math.
https://archive.org/details/AMathematiciansLament
Nobody with decision-making power in a school district likes the answer which this paper proposes: very small class sizes.
SFUSD does not appear to be run by intelligent people, however. I don't say that as some Internet slur. I mean that as a descriptive term. Should you disagree, it is worth watching this 2 min video of a meeting from one of their committees https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdekUXyAAzI
When it comes to politics, San Francisco is the world capital of learned helplessness. London Breed et al. are the problem solving equivalent of giving up.
And racism of low expectations.
the result? parents moving kids to private school. at the school nearest me they kindergarten enrollment is dropping. they are likely going to only have a a single class in a couple years
california is making it very clear the public school system is not going to help your children succeed beyond a base level. it seems to have the completely opposite goals of when i was in public school in california
Is there anything that will get these people to realize that maybe they are working with a hypothesis that is fundamentally flawed?
It doesn't take a large amount of thinking to imagine what might have more predictive power in explaining what's going on here.
Turns out math isn’t actually white supremacy. To the surprise of absolutely no one.
math is just the beginning of these backwards policies. public schools in california have been removing advanced classes in the name of “equity” for years. the racial enrollment in those classes did not reflect the racial enrollment of the school. the result? parents moving kids to private school. at the school nearest me they kindergarten enrollment is dropping. they are likely going to only have a a single class in…
It sounds like they tried to set up a large one-size-fits-all program. This might be a good time to bring up Lockhart's Lament , which imagines what artistic education would look like if we treated it like math. https://archive.org/details/AMathematiciansLament Nobody with decision-making power in a school district likes the answer which this paper proposes: very small class sizes.
Let me ask this: what problem are you trying to solve?
math is just the beginning of these backwards policies. public schools in california have been removing advanced classes in the name of “equity” for years. the racial enrollment in those classes did not reflect the racial enrollment of the school. the result? parents moving kids to private school. at the school nearest me they kindergarten enrollment is dropping. they are likely going to only have a a single class in…
My contrarian take is that algebra and calculus are pre requisites for for ap calc which is primarily used for elite college admission decisions.