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[quote=Anonymous]^Continuing on how difficult it is for poor student to have the opportunity to learn math her is another example from Lincoln High School in San Diego which is one of the poorest in San Diego.

The school site council (formed from teachers, principal, staff members, parents and students) voted in 2019 to spend:

120K for math tutoring
100K for new math textbooks for IM 1-3.

Was this money ever spent? NO. A community member then went to meetings and explains, "“We want to use the word misappropriated. We want to use the term misdirected. I told my team, I said, ‘Let’s go ‘hood on it.’ That money was stolen. It was stolen from children. And I’ll stand on that,” Blackmon said at the meeting."

So in 2019 no money is spent on math tutoring or math textbooks. In 2020 they cancel the calculus class after the first quarter then under pressure from publicity they reinstate it 4th quarter.

Then they stop offering the calculus.

CBS local news reported Calculus may be on the chopping block, again for San Diego's Lincoln High School.

Lincoln High School administrators say they’re trying to figure out how to continue the class for the upcoming academic year 2022 – 2023.
Eight students were enrolled for the class in the fall. Unless the class is offered, they will have to enroll in something less challenging.
This comes to some parents’ and educators’ dismay, because they say Lincoln’s possible calculus students are some of the school’s best and brightest academically.
Now parents, students, and administrators are scrambling to find a place for the higher-level math class with the start of the school year just a few weeks away. Critics say the educational disinvestment continues to hurt marginalized, Black, and Brown communities."

Note that this is happening a few weeks before school starts. And what is the district's solution,

"The latest idea for Lincoln High School is to combine calculus and pre-calculus into one classroom with one teacher at the same time."

The news report ends:

As of the posting of this story [July 2022], Lincoln High School’s master schedule does not list the calculus class for its 2022 – 2023 academic year.

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