https://www.yahoo.com/news/equity-builder-racial-barrier-debate-121500234.htmlEquity Builder or Racial Barrier: Debate Rages Over Role of 8th-Grade Algebra
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While some say schools should double down on the course and offer it to all children starting in the eighth grade, others say it’s time to drop higher-level algebra as a graduation requirement
Neither of these is the correct answer.
“The relationship between math and science is very strong,” said Talia Milgrom-Elcott, executive director and founder of Beyond100K, a group which aspires to prepare and retain 150,000 new STEM teachers, especially for schools serving majority Black, Hispanic and Native American students, by 2032. “A whole set of careers would be closed off to them — all of which happened to be some of the fastest growing and highest paying. From an equity perspective, it’s almost untenable.”
We should be trying to end these career fields altogether (True Leftism), not make them more inclusive (False Leftism)! These career fields should never have existed in the first place! Yes, leaving STEM "white"-dominated is extremely dangerous to everyone else, but the correct way to end "white" domination of STEM is to phase out STEM completely, not to keep violently pushing "non-whites" into STEM whether they like it or not in order to perpetually compete with "whites" in STEM.
“The problem is that sometimes people try to solve the gap by claiming that the issue is with math itself,” he said. “Then you have counterproductive and harmful policies that try to fix equity by trying to lower the ceiling and remove advanced math options for everyone, or replace them with superficial areas like ‘data science.’”
The part in bold is the True Left solution. Of course False Leftists would describe it as "counterproductive and harmful" because they are progressives.
He recognizes the importance of the subject for a calculus-based pathway in math at the high school and college level — and its relevance to STEM.
Imagine how much better the world would be today if calculus had never been invented.....
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