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Arithmetic Is Now ‘White Supremacy’?

Posted on | February 20, 2021 | Comments Off on Arithmetic Is Now ‘White Supremacy’?

That seems to be the belief of public education bureaucrats:

The Oregon Department of Education (ODE) recently encouraged teachers to register for training that encourages “ethnomathematics” and argues, among other things, that White supremacy manifests itself in the focus on finding the right answer.
An ODE newsletter sent last week advertises a Feb. 21 “Pathway to Math Equity Micro-Course,” which is designed for middle school teachers to make use of a toolkit for “dismantling racism in mathematics.” The event website identifies the event as a partnership between California’s San Mateo County Office of Education, The Education Trust-West and others.
Part of the toolkit includes a list of ways “white supremacy culture” allegedly “infiltrates math classrooms.” Those include “the focus is on getting the ‘right’ answer,” students being “required to ‘show their work,'” and other alleged manifestations.
“The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false, and teaching it is even much less so,” the document for the “Equitable Math” toolkit reads. “Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity as well as fear of open conflict.”

You see? “Objectivity” is now oppression, and the whole idea that there are “right and wrong answers” in math is white supremacy.

So if you flunked algebra in high school, you’re a victim.

John Hoge has a question:

I wonder how many of the education bureaucrats who are promoting the course would object to the calculations on their paychecks being done on the basis of 2 + 2 = 3.

If you wonder what’s wrong with America, start with the schools.




 

Category: Education, Racism

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