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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Isn't it good that they are catching this and students can learn math properly? Some high schools don't have good math teachers. Not everyone is able to go to good public/private schools with good teaching. Also, the fact that numbers have tripled in recent years probably has to do with covid, online learning, and just bad math teachers. [/quote]
Community college is the place to remediate algebra 1, not a UC campus. Even at a school with poor teaching, students who care can self-teach via Khan academy. COVID might have made it easier to cheat, but math teachers have not gotten significantly worse over the past 5 years[/quote]

I think that one problem is that these are kids who came up behind during the peak No Child Left Behind years, and the NCLB curriculum strategies and standardized tests were stupid.

NCLB was supposed to be a bipartisan thing but got hijacked by malignant narcissists who masqueraded as progressives.

The malignant narcissists used the NCLB effort to push schools to meet all sorts of utopian objectives and failed to give much attention to boring, old-fashioned education basics.

So, we’ve ended up with kids who pretend to have sophisticated critical thinking and problem-solving skills but who can’t actually use capital letters properly or add two-digit numbers.

This is an example of why today’s partisanship is so dangerous and why centrists need to make a comeback. We’ve somehow turned knowing how to use commas and memorizing the times tables into Republican activities. That’s absurd. [/quote]

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