San Francisco's decision to delay Algebra for all students until the 9th grade in the name of "equity," is a really bad one. Black parents didn't ask for this, and this strategy won't achieve the equity that they're looking for.
Hard to accept: A lot of "anti-woke" people believe that being woke is all just a lot of bad decisions like this. This belief is due to framing by the far-right: any bad policy is "woke." I help them understand that Black families don't want this and didn't ask for it.
@mekkaokereke @samstokes I disagree about the black parents not asking.
I was part of the opposition to the plan and black parents and religious leaders were the ones testifying before the SFUSD in favor of it.
You're confusing "a few parents and priests showed up in support of this after it was proposed" with "Most Black parents think this is an awful idea, and didn't propose it"
This is why recruiting a few Black folk like Candice Owens or Herschel Walker is so powerful for shaping white folks' opinions of what Black people want. You do see the few Black recruits. You don't see the millions of Black bay area parents and education experts that oppose this.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/sfusd-algebra-math-wars-stanford-study-17851567.php
You don't see folks like Jelani Nelson (Black educator, Professor at Berkeley), pointing out that no Black folk were involved in the small group that created this bad idea to supposedly help Black folk, and him be threatened with police for pointing this out.
A woman in a position of power, that in my opinion, doesn't listen enough to Black parents or Black educators, and is not in the Black community, has strong opinions, and influence over how curriculum decisions in California get made. When a Black educator correctly points out that no Black people were involved in this very lucrative but terrible decision supposedly to help Black people, he was threatened with police action.🤡 https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Stanford-professor-Karen-speaks-out-17064784.php There is nothing "woke" about her actions.
mekka okereke 
David Pollak