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 What qualifies as "algebra" under this decision? I teach 6th grade, and we're already doing expressions and equations that underlie algebra. We don't solve for x, but the idea that a variable can replace a whole sequence of numbers (from input/output tables) is a fundamental concept for at least one of the units we cover.