San Francisco brings back Algebra
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Anonymous
Yes, people who don't like math like Jo Boaler's work. That's great for them! But don't hold back everyone else. |
Anonymous
Homeschool families I am acquainted with are all using the Singapore Math (the one from Singapore) and supplement with US currency and supplement metric with also using imperial measures. |
Anonymous
They often use some combination of Singapore math, beast academy, aops academy, RSM, math mammoth, etc. |
Anonymous
I just was about to post the same thing. Such a scammer. Jo Boaler has a bachelor’s degree is a B.Sc. in Psychology, which she earned from the University of Liverpool in 1985. Every degree she earned after her bachelor's (her Master's and her Ph.D.) was specifically in Mathematics Education NOT mathematics. She allegedly taught math at a secondary school (which is grades 6-12 in England) for a really limited time perhaps only two years. She received her bachelor's in 1985 and her MA in 1991. |
Anonymous
Agree - the VA DOE definitely had this proposal plus a general plan to "deemphasize calculus" and then tried to cover it up when there was a lot of push back. I wish they would just be honest that they changed their minds - there is nothing wrong with considering something and then realizing it is a bad idea. |
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Is math racist? Haha
I left the USA so my kids can have better preparation than the average teenager here. LCPS and FCPS are major frauds and are considered top districts in the country. Make it make sense. |
Anonymous
Why not just homeschool your kids or move to the Bay Area or take them to AoPS/RSM after school? |
Anonymous
Because I’m taking my kids to a private institution abroad where they’ll acquire a more rounded and stronger skill set than the nonsense peddled here. |
Anonymous
More round and stronger how? Math isn't the issue since you can always supplement. What do you feel the international private is providing that a US private can't? |
Anonymous
The fact that your first instinct is to suggest "supplementing math" at home is the loudest admission of institutional failure I’ve ever heard. Imagine cutting a check for forty or fifty thousand dollars a year only to have to spend your weekends acting as a remedial tutor because the school is too busy "de-centering" excellence to actually teach the basics. If I wanted to homeschool my kids in the core pillars of civilization, I’d save the tuition and do it for free. You aren’t paying for an education at that point; you’re paying for a high-end social club that has rebranded its own academic decline as "inclusivity." What an international school provides is something U.S. private schools have completely abandoned: objective reality. While you’re busy defending a system that views merit as a "social construct," the rest of the world is still grounded in the real world. There is something deeply humiliating about watching elite American parents scramble to justify why their kids are being lectured on gender ideology and "lived experiences" instead of being prepared for a global economy that doesn't give a damn about their pronouns. It’s hard to take a "prestigious" curriculum seriously when the administration is more concerned with the "progressive victory" of putting tampons in the boys’ bathrooms than they are with actual literacy and logic. The world outside the American "woke" bubble operates on competence, a concept that U.S. private schools now find "problematic." You’re essentially paying a premium to ensure your children are the least prepared people in the room when they hit the global stage. International institutions aren't wasting time navigating the absurdity of whether biology is a suggestion or if math is a tool of oppression; they’re producing students who can actually solve a complex problem without needing a safe space or an HR-approved list of microaggressions to get through the day. Keep your supplemental worksheets and your "rounded" American indoctrination if it makes you feel better about the massive checks you're writing for a broken product. But don’t act surprised when the kids who were actually educated in institutions that prioritize sanity and science end up running circles around yours. Some parents want their children to be leaders; you clearly just want yours to be the most "enlightened" person in the unemployment line. |
Anonymous
We pay for Catholic school and I think a lot of the expensive private schools are not a great value for the price. That said, we do supplement math at home because (1) I enjoy teaching math to my kids and (2) it gives them an edge in the classroom. I would not be happy with an academic setup that didn’t involve me providing a lot of instruction. My dad spent a lot of time working with me (that’s how I learned square roots in the first grade) and I expect to do the same thing for my kids. |
Anonymous
It was you who mentioned a "well rounded" skillset as a reason to move. Now you're saying the global economy doesn't care about "well-roundedness"and that I should keep my "rounded" American indoctrination. At least make up your mind. If you don't want "indoctrination", look at classical private schools. Or even an IB school (Is the IB curriculum indoctrination, in your opinion?) Why are they not good enough? You seem to insinuate that a progressive curriculum comes at the cost of academic excellence. On the contrary, many of the best private schools in the world, the ones multimillionaires accross the world try to send their kids to, the ones with many years of post-AP math classes, are some of the wokest. Just look at the course descriptions of Philips Exeter - the STEM is superior to just about anything else, yet the humanities is quite woke. Still a winner, since it's not like the global economy cares about what history or literature you read about in high school. |
Anonymous
| DP. The case in favor of woke curricula would be stronger if the examples of top schools that include woke were outside the US rather than inside the US. |
Anonymous
How so? Whether the academically elite schools with progressive values are inside or outside the US, the fact remains that they prove that being "woke" is not at all mutually exclusive with world-class academic excellence. Hence, it's stupid to assume your kid will be getting a better education than anything they could get in the US just because the place they're moving to has less socially progressive schools. |
Anonymous
US PISA scores - which are objective knowledge tests - are so much lower than than many other countries. The case would be stronger if one showed that schools with woke curricula performed well in a country where PISA scores are strong across the board. |