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Oregon school deemed math to be racist based on the patterns that emerged in test scores. So they lowered or eliminated the math requirements to make it more fair.



"Seattle Schools Propose To Teach That Math Education Is Racist—Will California Be Far Behind?
California’s latest K–12 test scores were released earlier this month. Despite spending 26 percent more per pupil after inflation since 2011, test scores remain low, and improvement is proceeding at a glacial pace. Just 40 percent of California schoolchildren are proficient at math. What should be done? Seattle’s idea is to teach their students that US math education is racist, is used to oppress people of color and the disadvantaged, and has been used to exploit natural resources."

"Students will be taught how “Western Math” is used as a tool of power and oppression, and that it disenfranchises people and communities of color. They will be taught that “Western Math” limits economic opportunities for people of color. They will be taught that mathematics knowledge has been withheld from people of color.

If you are struggling to understand the logic of this, you are not alone. For the life of me, I don’t know how the Pythagorean theorem, for example, or Euclidean geometry, more broadly, oppress people or communities of color, or how these foundations of mathematics have been appropriated by Western culture. 

In fact, I really doubt that anyone whose foremost interest is in culture—Western or otherwise—thinks much about Pythagoras or his famous theorem and whether the relationship between the sides of a triangle denigrates people of color or has been used to promote WASPs and the wealthy."

https://www.hoover.org/research/seattle-schools-propose-teach-math-education-racist-will-california-be-far-behindseattle

Or Washington....but what's the difference? The entire west coast from top to bottom is a national disgrace.

To these filthy scummy liberal pukes COMPETENCE is NOT ALLOWED. Yes... Let's lower the standards for airline pilots too so the retarded kid down the street who wears his underwear on his head can realize his life long dream of flying a jet full of people into the ground at seven hundred miles an hour.