Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 21, 2023, 8:54 AM UTC

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It's not fair to other students if there's a no-penalty late policy. If some students turn in their work on time, and others turn it in late, it's not fair to the former if the latter have zero penalty. The reason for this is that the students who turned in the homework on time had to make other sacrifices in order to do so. For example, they might have studied less for a test in another class in order to turn in the…

Right but that'd actually be one of the benefits. Getting perfect grades in high school for me without spending all my time doing school stuff was a mad juggling of focusing/neglecting classes on rotation, always ensuring to get an A by the smallest possible margin, knowing how to properly front-load and have each teacher thinking of me as the kind of guy who gets an A, so I could get away with performing poorly at t…

Post by PawgerZ » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 9:25 PM UTC

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May I ask, what is Erdosian? As for bullying, I was a "gifted" kid in school, too. I was treated nicely when people wanted help and bullied ruthlessly when they didn't need me. > their parents would deny them privileges n beat them sometimes if they weren't excellent students 100% agree that this was one of the biggest factors in my bullying. Shame is powerful, and if a child is being shamed for their academic achiev…

Erdosian means having the genetic trait Paul Erdós had, which was the uncommonly good reaction to similar stimulants to those he took, without which he could not do any math research at all. He was steroidal, i'm steroidal too in my research, it's like bodybuilding in that steroids are part of the game. As long as they do not damage your health, it's fine. I literally get time dilation from the stimulants i take, whi…

Post by vladgur » Sun, Jul 30, 2023, 10:15 PM UTC

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Ultimately, it is your right as a parent to decide what values you want your minor children to be taught. What is an alternative? Forbidding parents to pull their kids from schools that are ruining their future by following a system with historically worse outcomes? Most importantly, original articles here provide data that show that teaching math the way CA is trying to do has led to worse outcomes across the ethnic…

Ultimately, it is your right as a parent to decide what values you want your minor children to be taught. So, we have the right to indoctrinate bullshit to children? What is an alternative? Forbidding parents to pull their kids from schools that are ruining their future by following a system with historically worse outcomes? We work by improving public schools. That's going to be easier said than done, but it's the r…