This is a battle no one should have to fight because it is so stupid. Math is not inherently racist, or if it is, that is bad news for black people because that means that reality itself is against them and not just white supremacists. But even the idea that the teaching of math is racist is ridiculous because the left has had fifty years to eliminate all racism in teaching. How is it that racism is still there? And why is it that Asians aren’t affected by it?
The battle against “math is racist” seems most intense in California, where it seems that we have won a temporary victory. See here. The decision to “demathematize math,” as the critics rightly describe it, has been put off for ten months.
All of this, if they win, will simply dumb down math instruction. Not teaching calculus because those who can’t learn it in high school will experience “fragility” and a tendency to racial animosity is nothing compared to what they will experience when the bridges they drive across tumble down because the engineers who designed it were poorly trained.
No, we need as much math taught as possible. And not only should math not be dumbed down to help blacks pass math class, but finance should be added to school curriculums. Too many people make dumb financial decisions, and I’m sure that not knowing math isn’t going to help this situation any.
I’m also sure that those who hope to make a quick buck off of people who don’t know math have been licking their chops at the thought of having so many idiots to fleece. Do we really want this to happen?
Very well said!
Posted by: BV | 07/26/2021 at 06:44 PM