Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity
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Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity
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Re: Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity
#2In the age of Zoom, won't even slightly well to do parents get tutors from a remote country for a reasonable price for their kids if the school stops teaching math. The only kids who will suffer are the kids where parents are not so much focused on education, thus increasing the disparity.
Re: Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity
#3Of course it will - it will make everyone equally as useless at the subject
Re: Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity
#4In the age of Zoom, won't even slightly well to do parents get tutors from a remote country for a reasonable price for their kids if the school stops teaching math. The only kids who will suffer are the kids where parents are not so much focused on education, thus increasing the disparity.
Learning remotely is hard, especially for kids. People will just get normal tutors.
Re: Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity
#5The Dallas experiment is interesting, and it’s not surprising at all that the students actually learned more than if they had been in less-advanced classes.
The question I have is what the grades look like for the kids who were somewhat involuntarily included in the class. In junior high, grades don’t matter all that much, but come high school it could be worse to have lower grades in more challenging courses, depending on how hard the GPA hit is.
Re: Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity
#6In the age of Zoom, won't even slightly well to do parents get tutors from a remote country for a reasonable price for their kids if the school stops teaching math. The only kids who will suffer are the kids where parents are not so much focused on education, thus increasing the disparity.
Learning remotely is hard, especially for kids. People will just get normal tutors.
People will get/prefer normal tutors when they can afford, yes. But good high school kids would be able to learn from remote tutors too, and those would be affordable for most families.
Re: Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity
#7In the age of Zoom, won't even slightly well to do parents get tutors from a remote country for a reasonable price for their kids if the school stops teaching math. The only kids who will suffer are the kids where parents are not so much focused on education, thus increasing the disparity.
Learning remotely is hard, especially for kids. People will just get normal tutors.
Not a kid, but I got a math tutor remotely. 1:1 a lot of the group remote problems go away. And market differences make a huge difference in affordability.
Re: Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity
#8Just get rid of GPAs and grading altogether.
If a kid wants to learn algebra, support them. Why does everything have to be dumbed down to the lowest common denominator?
Re: Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity
#9The Dallas experiment is interesting, and it’s not surprising at all that the students actually learned more than if they had been in less-advanced classes. The question I have is what the grades look like for the kids who were somewhat involuntarily included in the class. In junior high, grades don’t matter all that much, but come high school it could be worse to have lower grades in more challenging courses, depend…
I understand that grades matter for getting into college, but this mindset is viscerally horrifying to me. It almost reads to me as: "What if people were appropriately challenged and learned more? Wouldn't that be horrible?" Grade inflation is a terrible thing, even if it is likely an intractable problem because of the incentives that go into it.
Re: Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity
#10Of course it will - it will make everyone equally as useless at the subject
That is the apparent goal of “equity” programs.