mekka okereke Apr 16, 2023

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.

Show threadRDS (shawphd on Twitter)Apr 17, 2023
@mekkaokereke That’s horrible and bizarre. Our *third graders* have algebraic principles incorporated into their lessons (and our district is majority Black) so I don’t know wtf they’re thinking.
Show threadLuis Villa

@shawrd773 @mekkaokereke SF 1st graders have algebraic concepts incorporated into their[1] math too. I disagree with the middle school approach, but the reasoning behind it is not as completely batshit as the OP would make it out.

Regardless of whether or not it is sound in theory, though, it is yet another reason for every parent of any means to leave the system.

[1] source: me, a parent of a first grader in one of the lowest-performing SF public elementary schools

Apr 17, 2023 at 8:04pmWeb