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
How do they expect students to get into any UC or other major engineering/STEM program if they are on a track where they aren't going to have taken calculus by the time they graduate high school?

@ncweaver

*Elmo_shrug.gif*

Their theory was that this would lead to more Black kids taking higher level math, and being calculus ready. It was a silly theory, and hasn't turned out that way.

@mekkaokereke
I remember Jelani Nelson at Berkeley going crazy over this S@)(#@*, I can't believe that "progressive" school boards are still doing that. "Calculus ready" doesn't get you into a major University, and I want to know what lunatic at the school board things they do...
@mekkaokereke
I really hate it when people make this stupid "conservative" meme come true:
But this really is the case when you say "no Algebra in middle school for anyone"