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Re: Academic decolonization
« Reply #15 on: May 05, 2021, 11:27:38 pm »
Previously:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/academic-decolonization/msg3000/#msg3000

Now more along similar lines:

https://reason.com/2021/05/04/california-math-framework-woke-equity-calculus/

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California's Department of Education is working on a new framework for K-12 mathematics that discourages gifted students from enrolling in accelerated classes that study advanced concepts like calculus.
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In fact, the framework concludes that calculus is overvalued, even for gifted students.

"The push to calculus in grade twelve is itself misguided," says the framework.

As evidence for this claim, the framework cites the fact that many students who take calculus end up having to retake it in college anyway. Of course, de-prioritizing instruction in high school calculus would not really solve this problem—and in fact would likely make it worse—but the department does not seem overly worried. The framework's overriding perspective is that teaching the tough stuff is college's problem: The K-12 system should concern itself with making every kid fall in love with math.

Of course we disagree with this superficial reasoning that tries to make it a mere administrative tweak to benefit larger numbers of students. Most leftists still do not have the courage to come out and say outright that calculus was never meant to have been invented, and therefore we have a positive ethical duty to terminate knowledge of it ASAP. However, they will not hold this position until they abandon progressivism and adopt regressivism:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/leftists-against-progressivism/